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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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>,  Nicolas Petton <nicolas <at> petton.fr>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 20385 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2015 17:49:31 -0700

Stefan Monnier wrote:
> But yes, `...' is ugly.  It used to be pretty back in the XFree86<4.0
> days, when they were symmetric

And before that, some character-based video display terminals displayed `...' 
nicely.  There was good technical justification for this, as the 1965 draft 
definition of ASCII said 0x27 was the code for an opening single quotation mark. 
 However, standardization headed in a different direction long ago and nowadays 
`...' is ugly everywhere.  For more of the history, please see:

Kuhn M. ASCII and Unicode quotation marks (2007).
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/quotes.html
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