Re: '.' at the beginning of summary buffer lines

[Nuutti Kotivuori <nuutti.kotivuori@smarttrust.com>]

Simon Josefsson wrote:
> Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:
> 
>>> fw> (Please don't use '`' as a quote sign.  Thanks.)
>>
>>> Why is that?  It's often used in info docs....
>>
>> See <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/quotes.html>.
> 
> Anyone know how to insert the U+2018 and U+2019 characters in emacs?

Assuming MULE-UCS - insert-ucs-character. #x2018 works in XEmacs,
?\x2018 in Emacs, I believe - the function takes a simple number from
the minibuffer as input. However, the documentation is in MULE-UCS
package, you can refer to it there.

> (Is the characters part of some 8859 or 2002 character set maybe?)

Character set       ‘   ’
--------------------------
Macintosh Roman    212 213
Macintosh Cyrillic 212 213
ISO 8859-7:1987    161 162

If you want to get the ISO 8859-7 character, you can say:

(make-char 'greek-iso8859-7 161)
(make-char 'greek-iso8859-7 162)

However, in my fonts atleast, the quotation marks don't look so proper
- but atleast they are defined to be the right character.

-- Naked