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Support curved quotes in doc strings

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Message #167 received at 20385 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 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 13:13:30 -0700 (PDT)

> > 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

...where the *only* argument given is, again, "it looked rather ugly".
That is the only "why do they want that" that we have heard, so far.

And of course Mr. Kuhn is not specifically talking about an environment
such as Emacs, where you do more with text than just read it.

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