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Re: text-quoting-style
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: text-quoting-style |
Date: |
Fri, 28 Aug 2015 18:48:52 +0300 |
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 08:39:49 -0700
>
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > When you set LC_ALL=C you "misconfigure" the environment.
>
> It appears we're miscommunicating. I'm not suggesting to set LC_ALL=C for
> Emacs
> only. I'm suggesting to set LC_ALL=C everywhere.
Including in the shell? Then I'm sorry for my misunderstanding. I
thought you were suggesting to invoke Emacs as "LC_ALL=C emacs".
> If your display can't handle
> non-ASCII characters, then GCC, coreutils, and many other applications will
> generate what appears to be gibberish in UTF-8 locales. The fix is simple:
> avoid UTF-8 locales if you can't display UTF-8. This is not an issue
> specific
> to Emacs, or to curved single quotation marks.
If the users who dislike these characters are prepared to set their
locale to "C", then yes, that's a solution for them.
Re: text-quoting-style, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/08/28
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