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Re: weird treatment of ' and `
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Daniel Pfeiffer |
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Re: weird treatment of ' and ` |
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Mon, 1 Dec 2003 10:03:00 +0100 |
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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