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

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From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
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: Fri, 24 Apr 2015 06:04:18 +0300

On 04/23/2015 11:03 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> 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

I think that's typographical advice, and not necessarily applicable to 
text editors.

It's pretty common to use slightly awkward (but easy to type and 
unambiguous) markup in source code, and then convert it to something 
nicer in generated documentation.

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