On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 14:58 -0600, Matthew Woehlke wrote: > Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > > Le mardi 16 décembre 2008 à 15:16 -0500, Bill Nottingham a écrit : > >> I fail to see how using the neutral quote character ", a perfectly > >> valid > >> standard unicode character, is the road to incompatible software and > >> piles of quirks. > > > > And I didn't object to «"», I object to using accents instead of quote > > characters. > > And I didn't see anyone disagree. You do, however, seem to be advocating > "fancy" quotes over ", which still sees far more usage (and which > everyone knows how to type). The problem is that PK currently alters the description text (I think mainly to work around a bug/feature¹) substituting "fancy quotes" for "normal" quotes (which I think is why this thread started, to try and fix that in the packages!). Nicolas thinks tools altering the data in this way is bad, and I tend to agree, with descriptions being what they are now it's not possible to know that the alteration is always good. He also seems to haave a secondary argument that for lists, using o is bad but ∘ is good. I'm not sure I agree there, but I see his point. Personally I think the use of '"', ., *, •, o or ∘ ... are fine, just as long as all the tools are displaying the same non-invisible bytes². ¹ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=459155 ² Changing whitespace is different, I think, so the tools can do readable wrapping ... but I'm prepared to be shown we shouldn't do that in yum/whatever either (what we have now is certainly somewhat magic). -- James Antill <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fedora -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
