On Sb, 21 mai 11, 09:55:48, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > On 11-05-20 at 07:53pm, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > > > 3) Just a cosmetic/perfectionist issue: > > People would probably simply use the examples in DEP5 for the > > formulation of their pointers, currently: > > >On Debian systems, the full text of the GNU General Public License > > >version 2 can be found in the file > > >`/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2'. > > may I suggest, as we have UTF-8 and so anyway to use the "right" > > quotation marks, and perhaps also to quote the name of the license, so > > that we'd have: > > >On Debian systems, the full text of the “GNU General Public License > > >version 2” can be found in the file > > >“/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2”. > > Good point. I like that. Just as that suddle change of implicitly > using it in examples - not explicitly encouraging it in text. > > ...but not a strong point: I suggest to keep this in mind for a later > revision of DEP-5, and let the current one become final as-is.
While I'm a strong supporter of UTF-8[1] I don't think it's a good idea to use non-ASCII characters unless really needed[2], since things will look ugly non-UTF-8 systems, and this does *not* help speed up adoption of UTF-8. [1] none of the legacy ISO-* encodings has full support for my native language, including quotation marks [2] Author names would be a good reason to use UTF-8 Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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