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[PROPOSED PATCH] Use curved quoting in C-generated errors

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Message #56 received at 20707 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>
Cc: 20707 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#20707: [PROPOSED PATCH] Use curved quoting in C-generated
 errors
Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2015 16:26:40 -0700

On 06/02/2015 10:07 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> You're now
> changing Emacs so that its proper working is restricted to UTF-8
> environemnts

Emacs still works in non-UTF-8 environments.  That's the point of commit 
496bfe74990d6601d3584cb900643aa77d7b7a78, which causes Emacs to display 
curved quotes using straight ASCII approximations in environments that 
can't display curved quotes.

The abovementioned patch was needed regardless of the other recent 
quote-related changes to Emacs, because the Emacs info files typically 
contain curved quotes nowadays anyway, and users in 8-bit environments 
had trouble reading them otherwise.  To some extent this is an 
inevitable result of the rest of the world moving on, and of Emacs's old 
ASCII-only tradition having to adapt.

If you prefer a font that supports only Latin-9 characters I suggest 
setting the locale to en_GB.iso885915 instead of en_GB.utf8.  That way, 
Emacs shouldn't send undisplayable characters to your screen so you 
shouldn't see all those '?'s.  Likewise with other programs, as this 
issue isn't Emacs-specific.

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