GNU bug report logs - #24468
Emacs 25.1: Use of face escape-glyph on curly quotes is irritating.

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>

Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2016 10:02:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #17 received at 24468 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 24468 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#24468: Emacs 25.1: Use of face escape-glyph on curly quotes
 is irritating.
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2016 11:23:24 -0700

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]
> just define a separate face for that

Something like the attached patch, say. Alan, does it work for you?

This patch calls the new face "approximate-glyph" as there are similar 
problems with characters other than quotes and we may want to fix them 
at some point. For example, currently if I read the Emacs manual by 
using M-x info on an ASCII-only terminal, the first screen contains the 
off-putting text "Copyright \u00A9 1985\u20131987, 1993\u20132016". If 
someone ever gets around to changing this to display (say) "Copyright 
(C) 1985-1987, 1993-2016" they can use the approximate-glyph face to 
display the ASCII approximations.


[0001-New-face-approximate-glyph.patch (application/x-patch, attachment)]
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