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Re: quotation marks [was Re: TUTORIAL.de updated]
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Alan Mackenzie |
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Re: quotation marks [was Re: TUTORIAL.de updated] |
Date: |
Sat, 21 Jan 2012 11:12:38 +0000 |
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On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 12:29:33PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 08:59:05 +0000
> > Cc: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>, address@hidden, address@hidden,
> > address@hidden
> > From: Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden>
> > Sorry, but that's a philosophical point that cannot pass without
> > challenge. Because fewer people are using tty environments (which is
> > basically what is meant here by "ASCII-only") is it really "less
> > important" to support them? Or is there some other reason?
> > There are at least three Emacs developers who use a tty rather than a
> > GUI. There are users who do the same. (Why use a GUI for pure text
> > work, indeed?) To adapt a tty for random Unicode characters is a
> > non-trivial amount of work.
> TTY != pure-ASCII.
Yes, OK. But they share some of the problems WRT curly quote marks.
> What kind of TTY do you use that needs a "non-trivial amount of work"
> to support non-ASCII characters? And what that is the work which
> needs to be done for that?
I have an ordinary Linux tty, currently running a Latin-1 character set.
I'd need somehow to arrange for the quotes to be added to that set. I
don't know of any character set which includes both of these (I've had a
look through /usr/share/consolefonts/). I don't know how to do this,
and finding out is going to be a lot of work.
Also, there's the issue of adapting the keyboard to support the new
characters. I know how to do this, so it's no big deal for me. But for
the vast majority of tty users, I'd guess this is another research
project.
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
- Re: quotation marks [was Re: TUTORIAL.de updated], (continued)
- Re: quotation marks [was Re: TUTORIAL.de updated], Paul Eggert, 2012/01/19
- Re: quotation marks [was Re: TUTORIAL.de updated], Stephen J. Turnbull, 2012/01/19
- Re: quotation marks [was Re: TUTORIAL.de updated], Paul Eggert, 2012/01/20
- Re: quotation marks [was Re: TUTORIAL.de updated], Eli Zaretskii, 2012/01/20
- Re: quotation marks [was Re: TUTORIAL.de updated], Alan Mackenzie, 2012/01/20
- Re: quotation marks [was Re: TUTORIAL.de updated], Paul Eggert, 2012/01/20
- Re: quotation marks [was Re: TUTORIAL.de updated], Eli Zaretskii, 2012/01/20
- Re: quotation marks [was Re: TUTORIAL.de updated], Paul Eggert, 2012/01/20
- Re: quotation marks [was Re: TUTORIAL.de updated], Alan Mackenzie, 2012/01/21
- Re: quotation marks [was Re: TUTORIAL.de updated], Eli Zaretskii, 2012/01/21
- Re: quotation marks [was Re: TUTORIAL.de updated],
Alan Mackenzie <=
- Re: quotation marks [was Re: TUTORIAL.de updated], Eli Zaretskii, 2012/01/21
- Re: quotation marks [was Re: TUTORIAL.de updated], Andreas Schwab, 2012/01/21
- Re: quotation marks [was Re: TUTORIAL.de updated], David De La Harpe Golden, 2012/01/21
- Re: quotation marks [was Re: TUTORIAL.de updated], David De La Harpe Golden, 2012/01/21
- Re: quotation marks [was Re: TUTORIAL.de updated], Richard Stallman, 2012/01/22
- Re: quotation marks [was Re: TUTORIAL.de updated], Paul Eggert, 2012/01/22
- Re: quotation marks [was Re: TUTORIAL.de updated], Alan Mackenzie, 2012/01/22
- Re: quotation marks [was Re: TUTORIAL.de updated], James Cloos, 2012/01/22
- Re: quotation marks [was Re: TUTORIAL.de updated], Eli Zaretskii, 2012/01/21
- Re: quotation marks [was Re: TUTORIAL.de updated], Richard Stallman, 2012/01/22