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Date: Sat, 12 May 2012 19:26:37 +0800
From: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
To: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
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        Wanpeng Li <liwp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] unmapped quotes
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On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 01:02:36PM +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> On 12.05.2012 12:47, liwp.linux@gmail.com wrote:
> > - * If we're over `background_thresh' then the writeback threads are woken to
> > + * If we're over 'background_thresh' then the writeback threads are woken to
> 
> I can't say the original is wrong.  Since these quotes don't have
> "open" and "close" versions like {} or () pairs does, people often
> use ` as opening and ' as closing - while staying within ascii.
> Alternatives are things like « » or other things, but these aren't
> ascii anymore.  So I'd say keep it alone... ;)

Agreed. For example, latex uses ` and ' as opening and closing pairs.
That does look a bit weird for C and shell users ;)

Thanks,
Fengguang
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