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24.5; RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK has punctuation syntax in Elisp, but acts like a symbol constituent

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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
Cc: 24295 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, drew.adams <at> oracle.com
Subject: RE: bug#24295: 24.5; RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK has punctuation
 syntax in Elisp, but acts like a symbol constituent
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2016 07:25:07 -0700 (PDT)

> > > It does DTRT: this is "quoted-printable" encoding of non-ASCII
> > > characters.  You already asked this several times in the past, and
> > > received the same answer.
> >
> > The message was quoted-unreadable encoded *twice*.
> 
> I don't think we have any better choice, when the end-user uses
> mailclient-send-it: we know nothing about how the MUA handles
> non-ASCII characters.

Perhaps have a user option (and let users set it during the same
initial how-do-you-want-to-report-this? dialog).

Many (most?) mail clients now support such characters.
Perhaps the default behavior should assume that many can,
and thus let users simply copy+paste such chars normally,
once they've said that their client supports this.

But yes, let them choose.

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