GNU bug report logs - #21472
25.0.50; REGRESSION: (emacs) `Coding Systems' uses curly quotes for Lisp strings

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Message #10 received at 21472-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 21472-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#21472: 25.0.50;
 REGRESSION: (emacs) `Coding Systems' uses curly quotes for
 Lisp	strings
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2015 23:07:27 +0300

> Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2015 08:45:01 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
> 
>    In addition to converting various representations of non-ASCII
>  characters, a coding system can perform end-of-line conversion.  Emacs
>  handles three different conventions for how to separate lines in a file:
>  newline ("unix"), carriage-return linefeed ("dos"), and just
>  carriage-return ("mac").
> 
> Why curly double-quotes here?

These are literal strings, so they are quoted.

> Either those quoted names are supposed
> to be Lisp strings or they are proper names.  In the latter case they
> should not be quoted at all, and they should be properly capitalized.
> In the former case (which is what I'm guessing is meant), plain ASCII
> double-quote chars should be used.

Latest versions of makeinfo convert ``...'' into “...”.  That's life,
you should get used to it.  It won't go away, no matter how many "bug
reports" you will file for that.

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