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Re: [TIP] Get rid of the `foo' eyesore
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Brendan Halpin |
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Re: [TIP] Get rid of the `foo' eyesore |
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18 Jul 2003 15:18:41 +0100 |
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Jesper Harder <harder@myrealbox.com> writes:
> I'm pretty sure that the glyph most people saw on their terminals when
> the backquote syntax was invented was ➠�� rather than `. I guess the
> same applies to shell syntax and TeX (I think Knuth mentions the
> problem somewhere in the TeX book).
I still see it on my laptop (slightly older RedHat) but not on my
desktop (slightly newer RH). I used to think it was a unix thing
(that unix did right and MS did wrong) but it turns out that
standards (perhaps especially Unicode) have moved to defining those
glyphs to be the grave accent and the type-writer apostrophe. The
world of fonts is strange...
Brendan
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