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master branch: `message' wrongly corrupts ' to curly quote.

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Message #107 received at 23425 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
Cc: jwiegley <at> gmail.com, eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu, 23425 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, acm <at> muc.de
Subject: Re: bug#23425: master branch: `message' wrongly corrupts ' to curly
 quote.
Date: Thu, 05 May 2016 20:05:21 +0300

> From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
> Date: Wed, 4 May 2016 23:23:11 +0300
> Cc: eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu, 23425 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
>       4. It changes Emacs according to the preferences of specific people, without
>          giving others -- in the very spirit of Emacs! -- an option to choose
>          one's desired behavior in the standard fashion.
> 
>     At this point, I cannot undo this feature, since that would destabilize 25.1.
> 
> Can we actually leave it in, while all but promising to take it out in the next release?
> 
> That would seem like an odd choice.

I agree: this is not a good idea.  If we even suspect we will be
taking this out soon, we shouldn't introduce it.

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