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bug#20707: [PROPOSED PATCH] Use curved quoting in C-generated errors
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Paul Eggert |
Subject: |
bug#20707: [PROPOSED PATCH] Use curved quoting in C-generated errors |
Date: |
Sat, 06 Jun 2015 17:09:13 -0700 |
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Alan Mackenzie wrote:
Up till now, all messages output have been ASCII (with the exception of user
supplied characters and in some other rare instances such as outputting
`sentence-end').
No, even the current stable version of Emacs (24.4) regularly outputs curved
quotes on typical displays. I just now ran emacs -Q, typed "C-h i m emacs RET",
and saw curved quotes on the first screenful of the Emacs manual. So we're not
making such a drastic change here; we're just evolving Emacs in the natural
direction.
does the code test the output
display setup to decide what sort of quotes to output (best), or is it up
to some user option (middling) or is it hard coded (worst)?
It tests the output display setup.
This is not too much to ask of an Emacs developer.
Of course not, but could it be too much to ask of an Emacs user?
Emacs users in 8-bit environments shouldn't need to worry about this; they
should just see straight quotes where the Emacs manual etc. uses curved ones.
This thread is more about the special case of a developer who's using a Linux
console that doesn't support the full Unicode gamut.
this warrants an extensive entry in NEWS.
Makes sense, and the next iteration of this patch will add a NEWS entry.
I don't think that's the font for me. It has one-pixel thick spidery
characters, rather than the two-pixel thick ones the default fonts have.
The font has a bold variant. I'll attach Lat15-TerminusBold16.psf.gz. There
are other variants that are even bigger, if you like.
... Its apostrophe is a vertical line rather than a top right to bottom left
sloping character, and I find its curly single quotes too indistinct
If you just want to continue to use the same font, how about the attached font
lat1-16.psfu.gz instead? It's taken from the current stable version of kbd
<http://kbd-project.org/>; see
<http://kbd-project.org/download/kbd-2.0.2.tar.xz> and extract the file
kbd-2.0.2/data/consolefonts/lat1-16.psfu and then use gzip to get the compressed
version. This handles curved single quotes and if it's the same lat1-16 font
you're used to you should find it comfortable. Curved double quotes don't come
up as often, but if you want them to be displayed using a graphical
representation other than '"', you can do something like the following:
(printf '0x0d3 U+201C\n0x0d9 U+201D\n'; psfgettable lat1-16.psfu) |
psfaddtable lat1-16.psfu - lat1-16-double.psfu
gzip -9n lat1-16-double.psfu
and then use the font lat1-16-double.psfu.gz instead.
Lat15-TerminusBold16.psf.gz
Description: application/gzip
lat1-16.psfu.gz
Description: application/gzip
- bug#20707: [PROPOSED PATCH] Use curved quoting in C-generated errors, (continued)
- bug#20707: [PROPOSED PATCH] Use curved quoting in C-generated errors, Alan Mackenzie, 2015/06/02
- bug#20707: [PROPOSED PATCH] Use curved quoting in C-generated errors, Alan Mackenzie, 2015/06/02
- bug#20707: [PROPOSED PATCH] Use curved quoting in C-generated errors, Paul Eggert, 2015/06/04
- bug#20707: [PROPOSED PATCH] Use curved quoting in C-generated errors, Alan Mackenzie, 2015/06/06
- bug#20707: [PROPOSED PATCH] Use curved quoting in C-generated errors, Paul Eggert, 2015/06/06
- bug#20707: [PROPOSED PATCH] Use curved quoting in C-generated errors, Alan Mackenzie, 2015/06/06
- bug#20707: [PROPOSED PATCH] Use curved quoting in C-generated errors,
Paul Eggert <=
- bug#20707: [PROPOSED PATCH] Use curved quoting in C-generated errors, Alan Mackenzie, 2015/06/08
- bug#20707: [PROPOSED PATCH] Use curved quoting in C-generated errors, Paul Eggert, 2015/06/09
- bug#20707: [PROPOSED PATCH] Use curved quoting in C-generated errors, Alan Mackenzie, 2015/06/09
- bug#20707: [PROPOSED PATCH] Use curved quoting in C-generated errors, Paul Eggert, 2015/06/09
- bug#20707: [PROPOSED PATCH] Use curved quoting in C-generated errors, Alan Mackenzie, 2015/06/09
- bug#20707: [PROPOSED PATCH] Use curved quoting in C-generated errors, Paul Eggert, 2015/06/09
- bug#20707: [PROPOSED PATCH] Use curved quoting in C-generated errors, Alan Mackenzie, 2015/06/10
- bug#20707: [PROPOSED PATCH] Use curved quoting in C-generated errors, Paul Eggert, 2015/06/10
- bug#20707: [PROPOSED PATCH] Use curved quoting in C-generated errors, Dmitry Gutov, 2015/06/10
- bug#20707: [PROPOSED PATCH] Use curved quoting in C-generated errors, Paul Eggert, 2015/06/10