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On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 07:32:10PM +0200, Andreas J. Koenig wrote: > >>>>> On Sat, 2 Sep 2000 12:49:42 -0400, <abigail@foad.org> said: > > > On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 06:37:13PM +0200, Andreas J. Koenig wrote: > >> > >> Now I guess the question is, would POD be ready to work with U+2018 > >> and U+2019 as an alternative? I fear doing so would open a can of > >> worms, but probably an interesting can of worms. > > > > Considering the recent problems with characters in the 128-255 range, > > I doubt so. Furthermore, not all the world uses XFree. Not even most > > of the Unix world. > > Well, here is a completely wrong interpretation of my words. > > This is not an XFree problem. It is a much bigger problem that only > now becomes apparent to me, personally, because I switched to XFree 4. > And XFree4 switches to fonts that are considered correct if you follow > Unicode. And if you switch to these fonts then you will recognize that > there is a problem. I got the impression that you were suggesting that switching to Unicode characters was the solution, and that works because now XFree uses Unicode fonts. I didn't want to make the impression that I thought the problem only occurred on XFree. My problem is that Unicode isn't universal yet; and hence switching to U+2018 and U+2019 is a bad idea. AbigailThread Previous | Thread Next