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RE: please use ?\u2014 instead of the unicode character inbuff-menu.el


From: Drew Adams
Subject: RE: please use ?\u2014 instead of the unicode character inbuff-menu.el
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 17:24:43 -0800

> > Please explain why 1) is more readable than 2):
>
> > 1) ;; Use U+2014 (EM DASH) to underline if possible, else U+002D
> > (HYPHEN-MINUS)
> >    (if (char-displayable-p ?-) ?- ?-)))
>
> > 2) (if (char-displayable-p ?\u2014) ?\u2014 ?-)))
>
> Check the current code.  It's a mix of the two.
> I changed it not because of any web server/client issue, but
> simply because the resulting code is more readable.

Yes, thank you. That's in fact what I meant. It helps that the two
characters appear different, and the comment makes it clear what the
intention is.





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