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

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: acm <at> muc.de, eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu, 23425 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#23425: master branch: `message' wrongly corrupts ' to curly quote.
Date: Tue, 03 May 2016 19:59:43 +0300

> Date: Tue, 3 May 2016 09:36:10 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
> Cc: 23425 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> > we didn't see a need for the extra complexity
> 
> Talk about the tail wagging the dog!  This whole quote-beautification
> crusade (yes, the term is appropriate) has been a huge boatload of
> extra complexity.  And it's not even clear that we've seen the end of it.
> 
> Sure, I know the mantra: "That ship has already sailed" ("Shut up and color").
> 
> This particular ship is a gigantic barge of sludge, and it seems it's
> trying to plod through ice fields.  Global warming to the rescue?

Please drop the attitude.  This isn't helping a bit.  It does waste
precious time and bandwidth.

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