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Re: text-quoting-style


From: Richard Stallman
Subject: Re: text-quoting-style
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2015 11:35:06 -0400

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  > > The curved quotes are not about making Emacs more useful.  They are
  > > about reading aesthetics, but their effects are not restricted to the
  > > read form.

  > Exactly as with HT and SP.

All displays and all keyboards support HT and SP, because those
chars have existed since the 1960s.

If the situation with curly quotes were indeed "exactly" the same,
no one would have any difficulty with them.


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