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Re: Modernize frame-title-format: "%b - GNU Emacs"
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Yuri Khan |
Subject: |
Re: Modernize frame-title-format: "%b - GNU Emacs" |
Date: |
Fri, 28 Aug 2020 00:02:46 +0700 |
On Thu, 27 Aug 2020 at 23:18, Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> wrote:
> >> Why do you use en dash? Does Firefox, etc. use en dash, or is it simply
> >> your own local customization?
> >
> > I do that because that is typographically correct. Other programs use
> > a hyphen for historical reasons and if they all nod at each other for
> > consistency then we will not have any way forward.
>
> I agree with the typographical point.
>
> But I worry that all fonts won't support en dash. Could that be the
> reason why others avoid it as well?
I include considerations like “my window manager uses a font that does
not have coverage for General Punctuation block” and “I’m running with
a locale that uses an encoding where En Dash is unrepresentable” in
the “historical reasons” bin.
- Modernize frame-title-format: "%b - GNU Emacs", Stefan Kangas, 2020/08/26
- Re: Modernize frame-title-format: "%b - GNU Emacs", Wayne Harris, 2020/08/27
- Re: Modernize frame-title-format: "%b - GNU Emacs", Yuri Khan, 2020/08/28
- Re: Modernize frame-title-format: "%b - GNU Emacs", Ulrich Mueller, 2020/08/28
- RE: Modernize frame-title-format: "%b - GNU Emacs", Drew Adams, 2020/08/28
- Re: Modernize frame-title-format: "%b - GNU Emacs", Yuri Khan, 2020/08/28
- RE: Modernize frame-title-format: "%b - GNU Emacs", Drew Adams, 2020/08/28
- Re: Modernize frame-title-format: "%b - GNU Emacs", Thibaut Verron, 2020/08/28
- RE: Modernize frame-title-format: "%b - GNU Emacs", Drew Adams, 2020/08/28
- Re: Modernize frame-title-format: "%b - GNU Emacs", Yuri Khan, 2020/08/29