Re: [Quilt-dev] [patch 09/26] Use character escapes for directional quotes and spacing tilde.

[Jean Delvare]

On Sat, 16 Jun 2018 12:22:41 -0400, address@hidden wrote:
> Also add quotation marks where they make semantic sense.

Looks nice on my screen, but how portable is that? ASCII double-quotes
are universally supported. What happens with [lq] and [rq] if the
reader's font does not cover U+201C and U+201D?

Another thing that worries me when diverging from ASCII in contents
that could be quoted [1] by developers, is that it can cause weird email
encoding. For example, I have seen non-ASCII quotes used in the error
output of "gcc", which prevents 7-bit encoding of patches sent over
email (typical case: here's a fix for that warning, copy of the warning
printed by gcc, followed by the patch fixing the warning.) In practice
I always manually edit the warning message back to ASCII double-quotes
to prevent any formatting/encoding problem on the way. In general you
can hear me grumble as I do.

I guess the cases for copy-and-paste of manual page contents won't be
as frequent, but that still worries me a bit. Or am I a dinosaur?

[1] Yes, I'm being confusing on purpose ;-)

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Jean Delvare
SUSE L3 Support