Re: Unicode quotes in C

[Glenn Maynard <g_ld@xxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 11:10:17PM -0600, David Starner wrote:
> > I tend to prefer having features default to enabled if they're usable
> > by fully compliant clients--those with broken clients (even if they're
> > currently the majority) can disable it. 
> 
> Why do you think clients that can't display these quotes are broken? By
> the nature of the PC console, the Linux console (on the ix86, at least)
> can only display 512 different characters, 256 if you want bold
> characters. Conformant Unicode systems can support whatever set of
> characters they want. Give me a list of characters (< 256) that
> en_*.UTF-8 should support, and a consensus, then we can start
> claiming they're broken and fixing them.   

Because these characters have trivial fallbacks if they're not
available: “and ” to ", ’ to ' and ‘ to `.

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Glenn Maynard
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