From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/33496 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Shutko Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: tick and backtick in unicode Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 09:35:20 -0500 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <87y9y5a3ff.fsf@totally-fudged-out-message-id> 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> <20001127134028.44631F705@titan.progiciels-bpi.ca> 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 1035169592 25463 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 03:06:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 03:06:32 +0000 (UTC) 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 0E1A4D049A for ; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 09:36:31 -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 IAB06922; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 08:36:21 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 27 Nov 2000 08:35:47 -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 IAA00555 for ; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 08:35:33 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from mx1.hcvlny.cv.net (mx1.hcvlny.cv.net [167.206.112.76]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id F09C3D049A for ; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 09:35:40 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from s1.optonline.net (s1.optonline.net [167.206.112.6]) by mx1.hcvlny.cv.net (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id eAREZeR03721 for ; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 09:35:40 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from ool-18bc2375.dyn.optonline.net (ool-18bc2375.dyn.optonline.net [24.188.35.117]) by s1.optonline.net (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id eAREZeJ19173 for ; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 09:35:40 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (from ats@localhost) by ool-18bc2375.dyn.optonline.net (8.11.0/8.9.3) id eAREZK223503; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 09:35:20 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: wesley.springies.com: ats set sender to ats@acm.org using -f Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: <20001127134028.44631F705@titan.progiciels-bpi.ca> User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.0.91 Original-Lines: 15 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:33496 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:33496 Fran=e7ois Pinard writes: > My feeling is that people are tempted to consider it as an abuse, because > they use fonts in which the apostrophe stands right, instead of being > symmetrical to U+0060. They should rather consider the fonts as wrong, s= ince > the symmetry is not preserved. The fonts should be corrected, not the us= age. Perhaps you should speak to the XFree86 people, then. They recently "fixed" the standard X fonts to make ` and ' assymetrical. --=20 Alan Shutko - In a variety of flavors! Don't worry if you're a kleptomaniac; you can always take something for it.