Re: quotation marks [was Re: TUTORIAL.de updated]

[Paul Eggert]

On 01/21/2012 10:30 PM, Richard Stallman wrote:

> I can "deal with" nonascii characters, but some of them look rather ugly.
> Some of them cause the display to get out of whack, probably due to
> mismatch between how wide they really display and how wide Emacs thinks
> they are.

That shouldn't happen with the quote characters we're talking about,
at least, it shouldn't happen on properly-configured platforms that
are commonly used today.

> Can you please send me a message containing the character proposed for this?

Sure:

‘foo’ -- directed single quotation marks (U+2018, U+2019)
“foo” -- directed double quotation marks (U+201C, U+201D)

If you're running a GNU/Linux distribution that works like Ubuntu,
and you're on the Linux console, the following shell commands
are meeded to configure the system properly for these characters.

  export LC_ALL=en_US.utf8
  setupcon