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- From: Frank Klemm <pfk at fuchs dot offl dot uni-jena dot de>
- Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 23:05:54 +0200
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The GNU quotation style is wrong, which uses apostrophe and accent grave for
quotation:
`hi!'
On modern terminals this look like:
### ##
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## ## ## ## ##
# ## ## ##
## ### ### ##
### ## ## ##
## ## ## ##
## ## ##
## ## ## ##
## ## #### ##
which is wrong and also looks very ugly.
The right way to quote is:
'hi!'
which looks like
## ##
## ## ## ## ##
## ## ## ## ##
## ## ## ##
## ### ### ##
### ## ## ##
## ## ## ##
## ## ##
## ## ## ##
## ## #### ##
For a good explanation of the problem see also:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/quotes.html
There is also a script to solve the problem.
BTW: The whole webpage http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ is interesting to read.
--
Frank Klemm