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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2021-01-23 10:04:55 +0100 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2021-01-23 10:04:55 +0100 |
| commit | fb0d03d11cec04da7720a80a1373605d81fbb432 (patch) | |
| tree | 5066908d0bdf3547802dd4cc7f69bb822d7f471e | |
| parent | fe1ab0bcc9a99c02c558d919445cd0772535ae18 (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-fb0d03d11cec04da7720a80a1373605d81fbb432.tar.gz | |
uri.7: Note that 'logical' quoting is the norm in Europe
Drop the reference to the Hacker Writing Guide (and the broken URL)
and simply note that the logical quoting style is the norm in
European languages also.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | man7/uri.7 | 7 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/man7/uri.7 b/man7/uri.7 index 159217537e..44d1cb6cbb 100644 --- a/man7/uri.7 +++ b/man7/uri.7 @@ -549,12 +549,7 @@ switch to a quoting system that never includes extraneous characters inside quotation marks. This latter system, called the 'new' or 'logical' quoting system by "Hart's Rules" and the "Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors", -is preferred practice in Great Britain and hackers worldwide -(see the -Jargon File's section on Hacker Writing Style, -.UR http://www.fwi.uva.nl\:/\(times\:/jargon\:/h\:/HackerWritingStyle.html -.UE , -for more information). +is preferred practice in Great Britain and in various European languages. Older documents suggested inserting the prefix "URL:" just before the URI, but this form has never caught on. .PP |