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

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2015 18:40:04 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: patch

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #238 received at 20385 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Ivan Shmakov <ivan <at> siamics.net>
Cc: 20385 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, dgutov <at> yandex.ru, eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu
Subject: Re: bug#20385: Support curved quotes in doc strings
Date: Thu, 14 May 2015 23:12:38 +0300

> From: Ivan Shmakov <ivan <at> siamics.net>
> Date: Thu, 14 May 2015 20:05:53 +0000
> 
> >>>>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> >>>>> From: Ivan Shmakov  Date: Thu, 14 May 2015 07:20:17 +0000
> 
>  >> The ` character is not a quotation mark at all.  In fact, it’s the
>  >> spacing variant of the very same diacritical mark as is shown above
>  >> e in è.
> 
>  > Any references for this?
> 
> 	You mean, other than UnicodeData.txt and its derivatives?
> 	To quote NamesList.txt, for instance:
> 
> 0060	GRAVE ACCENT
> 	* this is a spacing character
> 	x (modifier letter grave accent - 02CB)
> 	x (combining grave accent - 0300)
> 	x (reversed prime - 2035)

Where does it say that it can be combined with some base character as
a diacritical?

I see no decomposition in UnicodeData.txt that has 0060 as its part.
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