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

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Message #297 received at 23425 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>, David Engster <deng <at> randomsample.de>
Cc: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>, 23425 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#23425: master branch: `message' wrongly corrupts ' to curly
 quote.
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2017 18:28:41 +0300

On 6/10/17 4:01 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:

> I'm clearly not happy with this change.  I'd be as unhappy about it if
> Paul had already written 50,000 commits, or it had been written by RMS.
> But, to repeat myself, I'm most unhappy that it was slipped into Emacs
> bypassing the customary discussion process.

Much as I dislike this and related changes, and the enormous timewaste 
that ensued, the change had been approved by the back-then maintainer, 
in an even more broken form (which has been improved upon somewhat 
since). Who had never voiced a significant change in his position in any 
subsequent discussions, IIRC.

So it's hard to blame Paul for the entirety of the problem.

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