22 Oct
2016
22 Oct
'16
7:17 a.m.
On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 5:49 PM, Ryan Birmingham
this proposed change aims to solve the problem caused when editors, mail clients, web browsers, and operating systems over-zealously replacing straight quotes with these typographical characters.
A programming editor shouldn't mangle your quotes, and a word processor sucks for editing code anyway, so I'd rule those out. When does an operating system change your quotes? It's really just mail and web where these kinds of issues happen. Any web site that's actually designed for code is, like a programmer's editor, going to be quote-safe; and it's not hard to configure a mail client to not mess with you. How strong is this use-case, really? ChrisA