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

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2015 22:50:30 +0300

> From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked],  [email-masked]
> Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2015 15:34:04 -0400
> 
> > Which tricks did you have in mind?  Overlays?
> 
> `display' properties.

Sounds gross.

Moreover, AFAIU people who want to see ‘this’ actually _want_ to see
the u+2018 etc. characters in the file/buffer.