GNU bug report logs - #23425
master branch: `message' wrongly corrupts ' to curly quote.

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>

Date: Mon, 2 May 2016 15:26:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug, wontfix

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #104 received at 23425 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: acm <at> muc.de, 23425 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#23425: master branch: `message' wrongly corrupts ' to curly
 quote.
Date: Thu, 05 May 2016 18:51:39 +0300

> Cc: 23425 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
> Date: Wed, 4 May 2016 16:49:12 -0700
> 
> Attached is a proposed patch to master to do this. It disables 
> translation from curved quotes, which means that quote translation now 
> affects only ` and ', and it documents that the text-quoting-style 
> 'grave' therefore suppresses all quote translation. This shortens the 
> Emacs source code by forty lines or so, which is a good sign.

Sounds good to me, thanks.  (I didn't have time to actually try this
yet.)
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