Subject: Re: bug#21472: 25.0.50; REGRESSION: (emacs) `Coding Systems' uses curly quotes for Lisp strings

From: Richard Stallman <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2015 20:21:11 -0400

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  > Why?  Why are we quoting "unix" and "dos"?  Why not quote "UNIX"
  > and "DOS"?

We write them in quotes in that passage because we are saying they are
the names of certain things.

Compare:

  Humans' pets are mostly of the effusively friendly kind (the "dog")
  or the aloof kind (the "cat").

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