Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752327Ab2EMCS0 (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 May 2012 22:18:26 -0400 Received: from mail-pz0-f46.google.com ([209.85.210.46]:38158 "EHLO mail-pz0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751768Ab2EMCSZ convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 May 2012 22:18:25 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20120512140918.GA1407@redhat.com> References: <4fae23ca.68db440a.4bc9.22cc@mx.google.com> <4FAE272C.6080804@msgid.tls.msk.ru> <20120512112637.GA11577@localhost> <20120512140918.GA1407@redhat.com> Date: Sun, 13 May 2012 10:18:24 +0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] unmapped quotes From: Cong Wang To: Johannes Weiner Cc: Fengguang Wu , Michael Tokarev , liwp.linux@gmail.com, Jan Kara , Andrew Morton , Peter Zijlstra , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Wanpeng Li Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1455 Lines: 29 On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 10:09 PM, Johannes Weiner wrote: > On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 07:26:37PM +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. >> That does look a bit weird for C and shell users ;) > > In some fonts, ` is actually symmetrical to '. > > If you change it to 'background_thresh', it will look like crap in my > Sütterlin emacs. Yup, see also, http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/17695/any-reference-on-the-usage-of-a-backtick-and-single-quotation-mark-like-this/18669#18669 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/