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

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Message #195 received at 23425 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan <at> gmail.com>
To: Clément Pit-Claudel <cpitclaudel <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> suse.de>, Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>,
 Emacs developers <emacs-devel <at> gnu.org>, 23425 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>
Subject: Re: bug#23425: master branch: `message' wrongly corrupts ' to curly
 quote.
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2017 20:55:53 +0700

On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 7:24 PM, Clément Pit-Claudel
<cpitclaudel <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2017-06-06 04:21, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>> Also, contractions like don't
>> should be avoided anyway.
>
> That doesn't matter much in the long run, I think: we intend to support languages in which apostrophes in the middle of words can't be avoided.

In that long run, I have more news for you: there are languages which
have a letter that looks almost, but not exactly, like the apostrophe
punctuation mark, but is encoded differently. (E.g. Ukrainian, U+02BC
Modifier Letter Apostrophe, as opposed to U+2019 Right Single
Quotation Mark).

Good luck substituting the correct character in each case given only '
U+0027 Apostrophe.

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