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Re: [O] Dumbquotes in exported source listings
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Sébastien Vauban |
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Re: [O] Dumbquotes in exported source listings |
Date: |
Sun, 01 May 2011 22:26:16 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (windows-nt) |
Hi Nick,
Nick Dokos wrote:
> Ben Finney <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Avdi Grimm <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>> Nowadays with Unicode available ubiquitously we can simply use the
>> correct typographical quotation marks directly in the plain text file,
>> but TeX and some other legacy systems don't work very well with Unicode.
I really hate those "smart quotes", better named "dumb quotes", because:
- I don't find them attractive at all, but that's personal, and could depend
on font families, etc.
- they're not correctly converted when playing with the coding system: from
UTF-8 to Latin 1, for example. That's really nasty.
I was/am planning to have a function for converting them on the fly when
pasting... or when saving the Org buffer... or at any better moment. Though, I
didn't get the right code to do so yet...
> AFAIK, TeX works fine with UTF8, given the defaults that org-mode export uses.
> What problems do you see?
UTF-8 is correctly handled in LaTeX documents, but not in every environment:
Listings has problems, even if a Listings exist for UTF-8, and so for many
other environments.
So I would say that UTF-8 usage is still not yet fully supported in TeX.
Best regards,
Seb
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Sébastien Vauban