From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/33350 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Karl Eichwalder Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: \201 irritation! :-) Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 06:38:20 +0100 (CET) Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <20001115053820.6DCA5DCBE2@tux.gnu.franken.de> References: <00Aug28.151432edt.115218@gateway.intersys.com> <00Aug28.173634edt.115213@gateway.intersys.com> <200009051429.PAA09826@djlvig.dl.ac.uk> <200009082240.XAA16800@djlvig.dl.ac.uk> <87n1h86w6a.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> <200009181407.PAA02748@djlvig.dl.ac.uk> <87wvg7roi1.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> <871ywi31rj.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035169475 24674 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 03:04:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 03:04:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=), ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: from spinoza.math.uh.edu (spinoza.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.18]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14AABD049A for ; Wed, 15 Nov 2000 01:49:00 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by spinoza.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id AAB02687; Wed, 15 Nov 2000 00:45:14 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 15 Nov 2000 00:44:22 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@66-209.196.61.interliant.com [209.196.61.66] (may be forged)) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA02042 for ; Wed, 15 Nov 2000 00:44:10 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from myway.myway.de (unknown [212.204.66.1]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF805D049A for ; Wed, 15 Nov 2000 01:44:29 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from tux.gnu.franken.de (postfix@dialin0110.nefkom.de [212.114.160.110]) by myway.myway.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA06876; Wed, 15 Nov 2000 07:44:25 +0100 Original-Received: by tux.gnu.franken.de (Postfix, from userid 270) id 6DCA5DCBE2; Wed, 15 Nov 2000 06:38:20 +0100 (CET) Original-To: Florian Weimer In-Reply-To: <871ywi31rj.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/21.0.90 Original-Lines: 20 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:33350 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:33350 Florian Weimer writes: > I think using these characters in source code (TeX, Texinfo, Lisp, > Shell) is acceptable, but presenting them to the user should be > reconsidered Yes, that's a good point. > (at least in a few years, when Unicode fonts are in more widespread > use, so you can use the quotation mark characters from the,). In the meantime, it sould be possible for Latin-1 users to use =AB=A0...=A0= =BB (french) or =BB...=AB (german) -- I don't know wheter other encodings/fonts have something similar to offer. --=20 work : ke@suse.de | ,__o : http://www.suse.de/~ke/ | _-\_<, home : keichwa@gmx.net | (*)/'(*)