Re: [PATCH] unmapped quotes

From: Johannes Weiner
Date: Sat May 12 2012 - 10:10:02 EST


On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 07:26:37PM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote:
> On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 01:02:36PM +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> > On 12.05.2012 12:47, liwp.linux@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > - * If we're over `background_thresh' then the writeback threads are woken to
> > > + * If we're over 'background_thresh' then the writeback threads are woken to
> >
> > I can't say the original is wrong. Since these quotes don't have
> > "open" and "close" versions like {} or () pairs does, people often
> > use ` as opening and ' as closing - while staying within ascii.
> > Alternatives are things like « » or other things, but these aren't
> > ascii anymore. So I'd say keep it alone... ;)
>
> Agreed. For example, latex uses ` and ' as opening and closing pairs.
> That does look a bit weird for C and shell users ;)

In some fonts, ` is actually symmetrical to '.

If you change it to 'background_thresh', it will look like crap in my
Sütterlin emacs.
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