Nikita Karetnikov <[email protected]> skribis: > While we are at it, we could agree on quotation marks. I know that it > sounds like bikeshedding… However, it doesn’t look right when some > people use `' and others use ''. > > “Although GNU programs traditionally used 0x60 (‘`’) for opening and 0x27 > (‘'’) for closing quotes, nowadays quotes ‘`like this'’ are typically > rendered asymmetrically, so quoting ‘"like this"’ or ‘'like this'’ > typically looks better.” [1] > > I’d prefer '' but will use `' if we agree on that. > > [1] https://gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html#Quote-Characters
Yes, that change in the GCS is recent, and I haven’t completely changed my habits. IMO the rule should be: use Unicode quotation marks wherever possible (almost everywhere), use what Texinfo prescribes in Texinfo (that is, like `this' and ``that''), and use what the GCS says elsewhere. I tend to use ASCII quotation marks in source files; the main reason for that is that typopunct-mode in Scheme files would be annoying (if you know of other ways do use Unicode quotation marks in Emacs, lemme know.) Thoughts? Ludo’.
