Subject: bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 23:03:08 +0300

> Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 22:55:28 +0300
> From: Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]>
> CC: [email-masked], [email-masked]
> 
> On 04/22/2015 10:00 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> >>   > Moreover, AFAIU people who want to see ‘this’ actually _want_ to see
> >>> the u+2018 etc. characters in the file/buffer.
> >>
> >> That's no problem: fontify the source files like that, too.
> >
> > No, they want the characters to be in the file.
> 
> Who are those people, and why do they want that?

Those who follow Markus Kuhn's advice, read here:

  http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/quotes.html