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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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Alan Mackenzie <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: Wed, 04 May 2016 23:49:16 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> > > Surely it should be a configuration variable.  Some people, like me,
>> > > don't like being lied to by a computer program.
>> 
>> > You are not being lied to.  Just think of ` and ' as yet another
>> > format specifier character, not unlike %.
>> 
>> They're not - they're literal characters.
>
> So is %.

% has always been documented as being special.  The only special
character.  Adding more special characters is an incompatible change and
breaks existing uses.

Andreas.

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