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

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Message #19 received at 21472 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 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 06:51:25 -0700 (PDT)

> > The point of this bug is that those *particular* terms do
> > not belong between curly double-quotes (IMHO).
> 
> Yes, they do.

Why?  Why are we quoting "unix" and "dos"?  Why not quote "UNIX"
and "DOS"?  What is the reasoning behind this?  Apparently these
are not literal programming strings - or if they are, it's not
clear how they are used as strings.

> > 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.

How does that respond to the cited sentence it follows?

Quoted text might end up with curly quotes.  The question is
why these words should be quoted (using ordinary text quotes),
and if they should (no reason given so far) then why they
should be lowercase.

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