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authorPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2016-03-14 17:36:23 -0700
committerPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2016-03-14 17:37:42 -0700
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downloademacs-8475f3da531955cf17fecbb78719ff7f3ffe8a18.tar.gz
ASCII-only etc/NEWS etc.
* etc/NEWS, nextstep/README: Revert the recently-added curved quotes, and stick to ASCII. This typically involves replacing curved with straight quotes. Since etc/NEWS is viewed so often by UTF-8-ignorant tools, rewrite its non-ASCII text to spell out Unicode, e.g., replace ‘‒’ with ‘U+2012 (FIGURE DASH)’.
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@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ adapted to GNUstep, a free OpenStep implementation, and in 2008 it was
merged to the GNU Emacs trunk and released with Emacs 23. Around the
same time a separate Mac-only port using the Carbon APIs and
descending from a 2001 MacOS 8/9 port of Emacs 21 was removed. (It
-remains available externally under the name “mac”.)
+remains available externally under the name "mac".)
OVERVIEW OF COCOA AND OBJECTIVE-C
@@ -25,11 +25,11 @@ superset of C. Anybody with experience with iOS or modern OS X
application development should feel at home.
A method call in Objective-C differs from most other languages in the
-fact that it doesn’t have a normal name. Instead, the method name is
+fact that it doesn't have a normal name. Instead, the method name is
made up of the name of each parameter. An exception to this rule are
methods without parameters.
-The following calls a method in the object ‘anObject’.
+The following calls a method in the object 'anObject'.
[anObject alpha:1 beta:2 gamma:3];
@@ -55,8 +55,8 @@ Classes are declared like the following:
modify the NS code over a long period of time. Keep the code simple
and avoid language constructs that makes the code hard to maintain.
-* Don’t use macros and types intended for the XCode Interface Builder,
- like ‘IBAction’.
+* Don't use macros and types intended for the XCode Interface Builder,
+ like 'IBAction'.
* The NS interface should work on all version of OS X from 10.6.8
(Snow Leopard) to the latest official release.
@@ -70,8 +70,8 @@ Classes are declared like the following:
The NS interface features a printf-based trace package that prints the
call tree of selected functions in the Cocoa interface, plus various
extra information. It can be enabled by uncommenting the line
-defining ‘NSTRACE_ENABLED’ in nsterm.h. To enable more output,
-uncomment the lines defining symbols starting with ‘NSTRACE_GROUP’.
+defining 'NSTRACE_ENABLED' in "nsterm.h". To enable more output,
+uncomment the lines defining symbols starting with 'NSTRACE_GROUP'.
GNUSTEP AND OTHER COMPATIBLE SYSTEMS
@@ -121,8 +121,3 @@ GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with GNU Emacs. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-
-
-Local variables:
-coding: utf-8
-end: