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Re: ASCII-only startup message?


From: Random832
Subject: Re: ASCII-only startup message?
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2015 00:51:36 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (darwin)

Drew Adams writes:
> So as the only demonstration of your claim that this character is
> not maintained in Unicode for compatibility between "apostrophe"
> and "right single quotation mark", you offer the statement that
> the name is wrong.

Drew Adams writes:
> These are (should be) different animals and
> they need not always have the same glyphs.

As long as we're on the subject of whose claims are assertions without
evidence, can you produce a single example of a system that actually
supported using different glyphs for these (apart from the typewriter
glyph, which isn't typographically appropriate for anything), and what
those glyphs might have looked like?


And, lest we get off the subject, The reason not to use U+2019 or any
other non-ASCII character in the default scratch buffer text is because
the user may not be able to save it, not because the ASCII one is more
typographically or semantically appropriate.




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