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>This is a bug report for perl from k@ak-72.mind.de, >generated with the help of perlbug 1.32 running under perl v5.7.0. >----------------------------------------------------------------- >[Please enter your report here] >This article by Markus Kuhn > http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/quotes.html >points out that it is considered bad practice to use the backtick >as a left quote and that UNIX people should get rid of it. >Since I have XFree 4.0.1 with the now corrected fonts installed I >start to wish that perl would follow suite and change these bad quotes >to single ticks. A quick check reveals that 2949 lines in 391 files >need to be inspected semi-manually for this to happen. >Any opinions if/not/how to proceed? It's not very encouraging that political correctness will now force things to look uglier for many of us. --tomThread Previous | Thread Next