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

From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>, Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 23425 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#23425: master branch: `message' wrongly corrupts ' to curly
 quote.
Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2017 00:15:49 +0300

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.
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