On Dec 12, 2007, at 7:50 AM, Peter Münster wrote:
I vote against too.
The only mappings, that make sense to me: -- and --- since it's difficult to distinguish them from "-" in a text-editor and "~" since it's difficult to distinguish the utf unbreakable space from normal space in a text-editor.
Another German, and I agree, too, with every point Peter makes. As an addition: I would vote for keeping "` and "'. I know that \quotation{ } is better and have been using it for a while now, but I also know that many older documents still have the old quotes, and when I began using TeX, they were considered standard. I think it's better to gently convince users to switch to the better style, not force them by breaking their documents. My two cents, best wishes Thomas