[mb-style] [Clean up CSG] Correct punctuation (was: Typography)

[David K. Gasaway]

The following is a reply I made earlier in the week, that I fudged and 
sent directly to Bogdan only.  In turn, his fine reply came directly to 
me, probably inadvertently.  I hope that he'll repost.  Sorry for the 
confusion.

On 11 Feb 2008 at 17:44, Bogdan Butnaru wrote:

> I understand and (partly) agree all three arguments I left standing
> above. But there's one thing that's bothering me: they can just as well
> apply to all our other rules. 

I can't outright disagree with any of what you said.  Instead, I've 
been pleading that we consider the relative value versus the cost.  In
other words, a little bit of incorrectness might be worth the savings 
in
hassle for the users.

> No-one (yet) argued we should impose a perfect standard twice the size
> of what we have now and then out-vote anything that doesn't conform. The
> proposal was just to define correctness in the (few and rather uncommon)
> cases where the current rules are "just use ASCII", and replace the rule
> with "Please do it the nice way if you can and care. Use ASCII if you
> want to add something, but don't change it if someone does it the nice
> way". I think that would scare anyone away.

My problem with this approach the end result: A database where the 
rules are not applied uniformly and the data is inconsistent.  Worse, 
this
inconsistency is *explicitly condoned* by the guidelines.

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