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

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 20385 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
Subject: Re: bug#20385: [PATCH] Support curved quotes in doc strings
Date: Sat, 16 May 2015 11:51:05 +0200

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

> Familiar to those who know Markdown, yes.  However, English quoting is
> more familiar to English writers, and far more people know English than
> know both English and Markdown.

The majority of English writers don't know about English quoting.

Andreas.

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