Re: [PATCH] unmapped quotes

[Cong Wang]

On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 10:09 PM, Johannes Weiner <jweiner@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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. ÂSince 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. ÂSo 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
> SÃtterlin emacs.

Yup, see also,

http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/17695/any-reference-on-the-usage-of-a-backtick-and-single-quotation-mark-like-this/18669#18669
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