GNU bug report logs - #4084
23.1; boxquote uses ugly ASCII "drawing" characters rather than Unicode

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Package: notemacs;

Reported by: Roger Leigh <rleigh <at> codelibre.net>

Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2009 10:25:07 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Roger Leigh <rleigh <at> codelibre.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #20 received at submit <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: "'Roger Leigh'" <rleigh <at> codelibre.net>, <4084 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>,
        <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
Subject: RE: bug#4084: 23.1;boxquote uses ugly ASCII "drawing" characters rather than Unicode
Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2009 08:24:29 -0700

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]
> Much nicer!  It would be great if these could be made the default in
> place of the ugly ASCII.

Sure doesn't look nicer to me! See attachment.

Boxquote should not use Unicode characters unless the buffer is already Unicode
encoded. Even then, I'm not convinced the Unicode version looks better.

[throw-boxquote.png (image/png, attachment)]
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