Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 13 May 2012 10:18:24 +0800 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] unmapped quotes | From | Cong Wang <> |
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On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 10:09 PM, Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> 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/
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