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

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2015 15:46:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 25.0.50

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #16 received at 21472 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 21472 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#21472: 25.0.50;
 REGRESSION: (emacs) `Coding Systems' uses curly quotes for
 Lisp	strings
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2015 09:24:02 +0300

> Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2015 14:11:06 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
> Cc: 21472-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> The point of this bug is that those *particular* terms do
> not belong between curly double-quotes (IMHO).

Yes, they do.

> If they were ordinary text being quoted then they would be (should
> be) capitalized - "unix", "dos", etc. are written incorrectly for
> such a usage.

Quoted text in Info manuals ends up with curly quotes when you use
Texinfo 5.x and later.
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