> On the other hand, why not do it right? "0027 is some ASCII
> single-high-vertical-short-line which was used in the middle-ages of text
> input to mean apostrophe, single quotation mark, prime, etc. Now that we have
> gone way past the french revolution (pun intended), why not enter those
> characters as they deserve? I find myself not using tex-text.map anymore,
> since terminals and editors can properly display all those nice glyphs
> directly.
But the overwhelming majority of users still type in the ASCII quote
sign and this situation has to be taken in account -- at least by Mojca
and me who maintain the hyphenation patterns. A change that would break
the setup of almost all users is not acceptable.
Arthur
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