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Originally Posted by Corona688

And they did that by using the wrong quotation mark?

(I will assume the question is not rhetorical.)
No; bakunin is pointing out that perhaps another language might use something that looks like a single quote for something else in their language entirely and was referring to letters instead of single quotes as an example.
As I am lazy, I use the letter u to refer to 'micro' as in uF which is totally wrong but convenient, where as it should be μ for μF .

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glutsetcursor

glutSetCursor(3GLUT)						       GLUT						      glutSetCursor(3GLUT)

NAME

       glutSetCursor - changes the cursor image of the current window.

SYNTAX

       void glutSetCursor(int cursor);

ARGUMENTS

       cursor	 Name of cursor image to change to.  Possible values follow:

       GLUT_CURSOR_RIGHT_ARROW
	       Arrow pointing up and to the right.

       GLUT_CURSOR_LEFT_ARROW
	       Arrow pointing up and to the left.

       GLUT_CURSOR_INFO
	       Pointing hand.

       GLUT_CURSOR_DESTROY
	       Skull & cross bones.

       GLUT_CURSOR_HELP
	       Question mark.

       GLUT_CURSOR_CYCLE
	       Arrows rotating in a circle.

       GLUT_CURSOR_SPRAY
	       Spray can.

       GLUT_CURSOR_WAIT
	       Wrist watch.

       GLUT_CURSOR_TEXT
	       Insertion point cursor for text.

       GLUT_CURSOR_CROSSHAIR
	       Simple cross-hair.

       GLUT_CURSOR_UP_DOWN
	       Bi-directional pointing up & down.

       GLUT_CURSOR_LEFT_RIGHT
	       Bi-directional pointing left & right.

       GLUT_CURSOR_TOP_SIDE
	       Arrow pointing to top side.

       GLUT_CURSOR_BOTTOM_SIDE
	       Arrow pointing to bottom side.

       GLUT_CURSOR_LEFT_SIDE
	       Arrow pointing to left side.

       GLUT_CURSOR_RIGHT_SIDE
	       Arrow pointing to right side.

       GLUT_CURSOR_TOP_LEFT_CORNER
	       Arrow pointing to top-left corner.

       GLUT_CURSOR_TOP_RIGHT_CORNER
	       Arrow pointing to top-right corner.

       GLUT_CURSOR_BOTTOM_RIGHT_CORNER
	       Arrow pointing to bottom-left corner.

       GLUT_CURSOR_BOTTOM_LEFT_CORNER
	       Arrow pointing to bottom-right corner.

       GLUT_CURSOR_FULL_CROSSHAIR
	       Full-screen cross-hair cursor (if possible, otherwise GLUT_CURSOR_CROSSHAIR).

       GLUT_CURSOR_NONE
	       Invisible cursor.

       GLUT_CURSOR_INHERIT
	       Use parent's cursor.

DESCRIPTION

       glutSetCursor  changes  the cursor image of the current window.	Each call requests the window system change the cursor appropriately.  The
       cursor image when a window is created is GLUT_CURSOR_INHERIT. The exact cursor images used are implementation dependent. The intent is  for
       the image to convey the meaning of the cursor name. For a top-level window, GLUT_CURSOR_INHERIT uses the default window system cursor.

X IMPLEMENTATION NOTES

       GLUT for X uses SGI's _SGI_CROSSHAIR_CURSOR convention to access a full-screen cross-hair cursor if possible.

SEE ALSO

       glutCreateWindow, glutCreateSubWindow

AUTHOR

       Mark J. Kilgard (mjk@nvidia.com)

GLUT
									3.7						      glutSetCursor(3GLUT)

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