GNU bug report logs - #20385
Support curved quotes in doc strings

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Message #158 received at 20385 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
Cc: 20385 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu
Subject: Re: bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc
 strings
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 23:03:08 +0300

> Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 22:55:28 +0300
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
> CC: 20385 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu
> 
> 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

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