Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs.

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2015 21:05:42 +0200
> From: Nikolai Weibull <address@hidden>
> Cc: Brief Busters <address@hidden>, Stephen Turnbull <address@hidden>, 
> address@hidden, address@hidden, 
>       address@hidden, Emacs Developers <address@hidden>
> 
> > You want to see curved, compare with
> > Symbola or Lucida Console.
> 
> So if a user happens to use these fonts they’ll be fine?

No.

> >> Do you mean that most users of Emacs who read their e-mail in a
> >> mono-spaced font may be confused by their font’s poor rendering of
> >> real quotation marks?
> >
> > No, I mean that seeing these quotes in scientific and professional
> > literature won't help, because they are typeset in a very different
> > typeface there.
> 
> So they’re expected to be able to read but not be able to see past the
> minute differences between two symbols (which are their own mirror
> images, so really only one) in two different typefaces?

They shouldn't be expected to be able to distinguish between
confusingly similar, but subtly different characters.  Let me give you
a few examples:

 "
 “
 ”
 ‟
 〞
 〟
 “
 „

Can you tell which one is which just by looking at them?  (Assuming
your fonts are set to display all of them, that is.)