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Subject: Re: [PATCH] unmapped quotes
From: Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@petrovitsch.priv.at>
To: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
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On Sam, 2012-05-12 at 19:26 +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote:
> 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.

m4 too.

> That does look a bit weird for C and shell users ;)

Just because they aren't used to it;-)
And shell scripting would be easier if shells had different opening and
closing quote characters.

	Bernd
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