Karl Eichwalder wrote on 2002-01-12 05:38 UTC: > Emacs Lisp hackers will not stop to use `backquotes' in docstrings.
Why not? They (like m4 hackers, the other group affected by the historic difference between ANSI X3.4:1968 and ECMA-6/ISO-646) have the choice of either stubornly sticking with an outdated convention or enjoying a typographically more pleasing result by updating or extending the relevant syntax. There are hardly any fonts left today which show 0x60 as a left single quotation mark and 0x27 as a right single quotation mark. http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/quotes.html What Emacs Lisp syntax extension could you imagine to solve this? Markus -- Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK Email: mkuhn at acm.org, WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/> -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
