- From: Christian Grün <christian.gruen@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2015 15:59:30 +0200
- To: "Robie, Jonathan" <jonathan.robie@emc.com>
- Cc: Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com>, Public Joint XSLT XQuery XPath <public-xsl-query@w3.org>
> 1. I think we should use characters that anybody knows how to type. Most programmers probably don't know how to type a chevron on their keyboard, and the way to do this depends on the OS and keyboard. After all, smart quotes are a convenience feature, and it's only convenient if they are easy to type. This isn't something that "tooling" is likely to fix for most of us in the near future. I agree. As long as there are no standardized keyboard mappings for such characters for Windows, Mac and Linux, there will be too many developers who will have no idea how to get these characters displayed.
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