Re: weird treatment of ' and `

[Daniel Pfeiffer]

Saluton, Moin,

Kenichi Handa <address@hidden> skribis:

> In article <address@hidden>, Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Kenichi Handa <address@hidden> writes:
> >>  > Yes, same here.  Unless the author of that change can give a
> >>  > compelling reason, I suggest you make that the standard.
> >> 
> >>  The reason is written as a comment in the code
> >>  (mule-cmds.el) as below:
> >>  
> >>    ;; XFree86 4 has changed most of the fonts from their designed
> >>    ;; versions such that `' no longer appears as balanced quotes.
> >> 
> >>  So, I suggest to undo the above change.
> 
> > I also agree.
> 
> > This change seems to have more negative effects than positive ones, and
> > has caused a great deal of confusion (and it's rather kludgey to boot).
> 
> > I seem to recall that the last time we discussed this issue, there was
> > at least a vague consensus that it should be reversed*, but nothing was
> > ever done.
> 
> I've just undone the above change.

It is still advertised in etc/NEWS.

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Daniel Pfeiffer

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