Subject: Re: bug#20707: [PROPOSED PATCH] Use curved quoting in C-generated errors

From: Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2015 20:39:35 +0300

On 06/10/2015 07:20 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:

> Yes, of course.  It should be normal to type quotes as themselves in doc
> strings.  It's basic WYSIWYG.

One doesn't usually see WYSIWYG in program source files.

I think it's okay (more or less) if you want to type a curly quote in a 
docstring if it has no secondary meaning. Less so if you want to use it 
to delineate Lisp symbols or code.