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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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: acm <at> muc.de, 24468 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#24468: Emacs 25.1: Use of face escape-glyph on curly quotes is irritating.
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2016 14:15:53 -0700

On 09/22/2016 11:42 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> How about asciify-glyph?

The substitute glyphs might not be ASCII in the future. For example, on 
Fedora 24 the console font 'cp1250' can display µ (U+00B5 MICRO SIGN) 
but not μ (U+03BC GREEK SMALL LETTER MU), and it would be quite 
reasonable for a future version of Emacs to display the latter as the 
former using the approximation-glyph font.

It's true that the name 'approximation-glyph' is long and hard to spell. 
Perhaps we can think of a better font name that doesn't imply ASCII. How 
about 'homo-glyph'? That is more technically accurate anyway, as this 
feature is all about homoglyphs.
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