From: Toby Speight <streapadair@gmx.net>
Subject: Re: tick and backtick in unicode
Date: 30 Nov 2000 11:23:13 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <s8itp5ya8u.fsf@lanber.cam.eu.citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE's message of "30 Nov 2000 02:57:18 +0100"
0> In article <20001129054556.6773DDB0FB@tux.gnu.franken.de>,
0> Karl Eichwalder <URL:mailto:keichwa@gmx.net> ("Karl") wrote:
Karl> Markus explains that neither ASCII (ISO 646) nor ISO 8859-1 has
Karl> left or right quote characters (neither double nor single); it
Karl> has a single and a double quote you've to use to start and to
Karl> end the quoted string.
Karl>
Karl> ASCII has the grave accent ("back tick") and ISO 8859-1 has the
Karl> [acute] accent in addition.
0> In article <vaflmu2rzlt.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de>,
0> Kai Großjohann <URL:mailto:Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE> ("Kai") wrote:
Kai> Are you saying that under your interpretation there is no way in
Kai> Unicode to display left and right single quotes?
There's no way in Latin-1; there exist paired quote characters in
Unicode (outside the Latin-1 range).
Kai> FWIW, TeX also uses `single quotes' like this. By saying this, I
Kai> mean that when you provide TeX with an input that has `single
Kai> quotes', then the output will contain a single left and a single
Kai> right quote.
Kai>
Kai> I think it is not useful to make fonts such that TeX input looks
Kai> asymmetrical, nor such that Emacs Lisp code looks asymmetrical.
Kai>
Kai> And I don't believe that shell code looks silly with left and
Kai> right quotes at all, no more silly than with grave and acute
Kai> accents.
The way around this is probably to use a display-table to map (unpaired)
` and ' to the paired quote characters in a mode-specific display-table
used by (e.g.) Help mode and TeX mode. Caveat: I've only played with
display-tables in unibyte emacsen; I don't know how Mule changes display
tables.
Disclaimer: I use the GNU fonts for my Emacs, but I'm aware that WISINWOG.
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Thread overview: 67+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-08-27 17:21 \201 irritation! :-) François Pinard
2000-08-27 21:13 ` François Pinard
2000-08-28 8:44 ` Kai Großjohann
2000-08-28 19:14 ` Stainless Steel Rat
2000-08-28 19:54 ` François Pinard
2000-08-28 21:36 ` Stainless Steel Rat
2000-08-28 22:46 ` François Pinard
2000-09-05 14:29 ` Dave Love
2000-09-05 16:19 ` Stainless Steel Rat
2000-09-08 23:32 ` Dave Love
2000-09-09 2:49 ` Stainless Steel Rat
2000-09-06 14:56 ` François Pinard
2000-09-08 22:40 ` Dave Love
2000-09-16 18:14 ` Florian Weimer
2000-09-18 14:07 ` Dave Love
2000-09-20 16:56 ` Florian Weimer
2000-09-20 19:26 ` Kai Großjohann
2000-11-11 16:35 ` Florian Weimer
2000-11-15 5:38 ` Karl Eichwalder
2000-11-27 13:40 ` François Pinard
2000-11-27 14:35 ` tick and backtick in unicode Alan Shutko
2000-11-27 16:56 ` François Pinard
2000-11-27 19:47 ` Karl Eichwalder
2000-11-27 20:57 ` Stainless Steel Rat
2000-11-28 6:01 ` François Pinard
2000-11-29 5:45 ` Karl Eichwalder
2000-11-30 1:57 ` Kai Großjohann
2000-11-30 4:19 ` Karl Eichwalder
2000-11-30 6:33 ` Graham Murray
2000-11-30 12:38 ` Per Abrahamsen
2000-11-30 11:23 ` Toby Speight [this message]
2000-09-21 19:33 ` \201 irritation! :-) Dave Love
2000-09-23 11:14 ` Florian Weimer
2000-09-25 11:55 ` Dave Love
2000-09-28 12:22 ` Florian Weimer
2000-09-29 19:18 ` QP encoding is now unibyte (was: " Florian Weimer
2000-10-03 23:17 ` Dave Love
2000-09-05 14:16 ` Dave Love
2000-09-06 14:49 ` François Pinard
2000-09-06 20:15 ` Kai Großjohann
2000-09-07 7:34 ` Yair Friedman (Jerusalem)
2000-09-08 9:31 ` Janne Rinta-Manty
2000-09-08 17:49 ` Simon Josefsson
2000-09-08 23:44 ` Dave Love
2000-09-12 8:51 ` Yair Friedman (Jerusalem)
2000-09-12 12:02 ` Kai Großjohann
2000-09-13 19:25 ` Dave Love
2000-09-14 7:49 ` Yair Friedman (Jerusalem)
2000-09-14 12:18 ` ShengHuo ZHU
2000-09-14 21:50 ` Dave Love
2000-09-14 23:06 ` ShengHuo ZHU
2000-09-18 13:51 ` Dave Love
2000-09-18 14:39 ` ShengHuo ZHU
2000-09-22 14:23 ` Dave Love
2000-09-14 21:42 ` Dave Love
2000-09-15 3:29 ` ShengHuo ZHU
2000-09-20 9:34 ` Yair Friedman (Jerusalem)
2000-09-20 13:06 ` ShengHuo ZHU
2000-09-20 14:55 ` Yair Friedman (Jerusalem)
2000-09-20 14:16 ` ShengHuo ZHU
2000-09-21 8:35 ` Yair Friedman (Jerusalem)
2000-09-21 19:02 ` Dave Love
2000-09-23 6:35 ` Karl Eichwalder
2000-09-25 11:33 ` Dave Love
2000-09-25 18:50 ` Karl Eichwalder
2000-09-27 21:56 ` Dave Love
2000-09-08 22:33 ` Dave Love
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