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Support curved quotes in doc strings

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From: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 20385 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu
Subject: bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 12:45:03 +0000

Hello, Eli.

On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 03:35:15PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: 23 Apr 2015 12:11:09 -0000
> > From: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>
> > Cc: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

> > >  This mechanism is already used in the Emacs 24.5 info files, and it works well 
> > > there.

> > It doesn't work at all well in my terminal (a Linux virtual tty).
> > Whatever these characters are, they are displayed as inverse question
> > marks.

> In Emacs or in the stand-alone Info reader?

In Emacs.  I haven't yet tried it in the stand-alone Info reader.

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

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