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On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 06:44:22AM -0600, Tom Christiansen wrote:
> >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.
It's all very nice to call something one doesn't like "political
correctness". But FWIW the `Yankee quoting' looks absolutely ugly
for "many of us". I guess it's one of those things where there is
no clearly better alternative, but instead each one likes what one
has been raised with.
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