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Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ce1d38: Use curved quotes in core elisp diagno
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Yuri Khan |
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Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ce1d38: Use curved quotes in core elisp diagnostics |
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Tue, 18 Aug 2015 21:09:51 +0600 |
On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 11:35 PM, Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden> wrote:
> What I object to is _non-working_ characters - characters which appear
> on nobody's keyboard (see Bastien's question about typing curly quotes)
> and are problematic to display (See Eli's recent post, for example).
It’s these two problems which need fixed.
We need keyboards (or input methods) which offer a convenient way to
enter typographically correct quotes and dashes and other essential
punctuation, because otherwise people fall back to their
easier-to-enter ASCII substitutes.
We need terminals which are capable of displaying the whole repertoire
of Unicode, because otherwise we have to make a choice of the subset
we’d like to be able to see.
Making these two long-standing problems more visible is a good thing.
(As far as I am concerned, both are solved problems already. It’s just
that the solutions are not mainstream enough.)
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ce1d38: Use curved quotes in core elisp diagnostics, (continued)
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ce1d38: Use curved quotes in core elisp diagnostics, Richard Stallman, 2015/08/19
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ce1d38: Use curved quotes in core elisp diagnostics, Richard Stallman, 2015/08/19
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ce1d38: Use curved quotes in core elisp diagnostics, Alan Mackenzie, 2015/08/18
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ce1d38: Use curved quotes in core elisp diagnostics, Paul Eggert, 2015/08/19
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ce1d38: Use curved quotes in core elisp diagnostics, Óscar Fuentes, 2015/08/19
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ce1d38: Use curved quotes in core elisp diagnostics, Nicolas Richard, 2015/08/19
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ce1d38: Use curved quotes in core elisp diagnostics, Marcin Borkowski, 2015/08/19
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ce1d38: Use curved quotes in core elisp diagnostics, Paul Eggert, 2015/08/19
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ce1d38: Use curved quotes in core elisp diagnostics, Óscar Fuentes, 2015/08/20
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ce1d38: Use curved quotes in core elisp diagnostics, Andreas Schwab, 2015/08/20
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ce1d38: Use curved quotes in core elisp diagnostics,
Yuri Khan <=
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ce1d38: Use curved quotes in core elisp diagnostics, Andreas Schwab, 2015/08/18
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ce1d38: Use curved quotes in core elisp diagnostics, Yuri Khan, 2015/08/18
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ce1d38: Use curved quotes in core elisp diagnostics, Alan Mackenzie, 2015/08/18
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ce1d38: Use curved quotes in core elisp diagnostics, Yuri Khan, 2015/08/18
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ce1d38: Use curved quotes in core elisp diagnostics, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/08/18
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ce1d38: Use curved quotes in core elisp diagnostics, Yuri Khan, 2015/08/19
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ce1d38: Use curved quotes in core elisp diagnostics, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/08/19
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ce1d38: Use curved quotes in core elisp diagnostics, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2015/08/19
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ce1d38: Use curved quotes in core elisp diagnostics, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/08/19
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ce1d38: Use curved quotes in core elisp diagnostics, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2015/08/19