Subject: Re: bug#23425: master branch: `message' wrongly corrupts ' to curly quote.

From: Alan Mackenzie <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2017 21:10:10 +0000

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Hello, Dmitry.

On Sat, Jun 03, 2017 at 00:15:49 +0300, Dmitry Gutov wrote:
> On 6/3/17 12:02 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:

> > I propose restoring the default to what it was in Emacs 24.  For
> > simplicity's sake, only % should be special, and for translating quotes
> > we could introduce %' and %`, such that quote translation happens only
> > when a %' or %` is present.

> I recall proposing something to that effect back in one of the original 
> discussions. E.g. GCC does that with its message function.

Can you see any disadvantage with such a change?

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).