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

From: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2017 09:44:58 +0200

On Jun 06 2017, Paul Eggert <[email-masked]> wrote:

> The original bug report is about the ‘message’ function, not about formats
> in general. For that function, "%s" is the longstanding way to output
> arbitrary strings. For formats in general, one can use the ‘format’
> function (which does not translate quotes) or the ‘format-message’
> function (which does); this suffices in practice.

That doesn't make sense, since the first argument of message is a format
string.

Andreas.

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