[Gnu-arch-users] Re: Re: Re: [HEY TOM!] unhelpful error for unreadable directories

[Nikolai Weibull]

* Andrew Suffield <address@hidden> [Apr 27, 2004 13:20]:
> Correct. The semantic distinction in English between ` and ' applies
> here. ` is a backtick, and ' is a single quote.

OK, fine.

> > Third, some fonts will display a single quote (') tilted slightly
> > forward, which makes for a pretty display, terminating a previous
> > backtick (`).

> And some fonts will display a small picture of a horse. But most fonts
> give you a backtick for ` and a single quote or apostrophe for ',
> which are horribly mismatched and look awful. Notably any vaguely
> modern font will do this, because it will have been written for the
> unicode character set and therefore contains real matched quotes at
> different codepoints.

Yes, I agree with you.  I gave up a long time ago on having ' in my font
as a straight line and tilted it to work better with GNU output.  I have
come to like it, but hopefully this will be taken care of once the
utilities move to more unicode enabled font friendly output and I can
revert to a straight line.
        nikolai

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