Helge Kreutzmann <[email protected]> > On Mon, May 07, 2012 at 07:24:40PM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: > > [...] But more to the point, why do it? Just to save two > > characters and maybe one byte? > > No. To be typographically correct. In the beginning, there was ASCII, > and many typographic conventions had to be emulated (at least if you > did not use TeX or simmilar). Now we are able to write e-mails with > proper quotes and so on. And since a proper ellipsis exists and Debian > UTF-8 is now the default for several releases, the German team startet > wondering why are we still emulating?
What is "proper" typography? We can't even agree on spacing around punctuation in English yet, so I suspect we may have different opinions on whether multi-character ... is better than the single-character one (which I don't find on my en_GB keymap just now). Is there a DIN Norm for German punctuation or may there be different opinions among that language's 1L speakers too? Personally, I think that curved quotes are ugly and the single-character ellipsis is usually too cramped (in most variable-width fonts and all fixed ones), so I think there may be some font bugs to fix before there's a "proper" one available to all, leaving aside unusual platforms like the kindles running debian armel. Regards, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. http://koha-community.org supporter, web and library systems developer. In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Available for hire (including development) at http://www.software.coop/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
