If it's so hard to convince RMS that modern style is different,
maybe it's easier to convince him to drop this subject.
Please, no. It wasn't rms's idea to bring this up. It was ours (mine),
and the reason is that GNU developers ask the question, repeatedly. I
don't want to go back to
| the application domain. For example, if source code deals with
| the French Revolutionary calendar, it is OK if its literal strings
Sounds good, thanks.
I assume you mean punt the 'preferably'?
Actually I meant point out, ie, our text didn't just give `...' as one
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl Berry) writes:
Maybe we should just drop the text about '...' and ..., as it's kind
of implied. Thus:
In the C locale, GNU programs should stick to plain ASCII for
quotation characters in messages to users: preferably 0x60 (`) for
left quotes and 0x27 (') for
Here are rms's comments on our draft about the quote character stuff.
1) I don't know how to address his problem with domain at hand, please help?
2) I hope that if I point the preferably, and that gcc is using
'...', and that the rest of the world thinks ' is the standard, he
will let the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl Berry) writes:
Here are rms's comments on our draft about the quote character stuff.
1) I don't know how to address his problem with domain at hand, please help?
How about changing this:
Sticking to the ASCII character set (plain text, 7-bit characters) is
