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Emacs 25.1: Use of face escape-glyph on curly quotes is irritating.

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>
Subject: bug#24468: closed (Re: bug#24468: Emacs 25.1: Use of face
 escape-glyph on curly quotes is irritating.)
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 05:54:02 +0000

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Your bug report

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

which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed.

The explanation is attached below, along with your original report.
If you require more details, please reply to 24468 <at> debbugs.gnu.org.

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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-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#24468: Emacs 25.1: Use of face escape-glyph on curly quotes
 is irritating.
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2016 22:52:58 -0700

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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> > How about 'homo-glyph'? That is more technically accurate anyway, as this
>> > feature is all about homoglyphs.
> Fine with me, thanks.

I installed it as 'homoglyph' via the attached patch, since when I wrote it up 
'homo-glyph' was confusing: the English word is 'homoglyph' after all.

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From: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Emacs 25.1: Use of face escape-glyph on curly quotes is irritating.
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2016 10:01:01 +0000

Hello, Emacs.

In Emacs 25.1, I am using the info files built for the distribution
using texinfo 5 (?or 6).  They contain lots of curly quotes.

On my Linux virtual terminal, these are all displayed with the
escape-glyph, which is irritating in the extreme.  The workaround of
customizing escape-glyph to the default face would prevent the effect of
highlighting things like \377 and ^L, which is the proper use of
escape-glyph.

The only other workaround I can think of is rebuilding the Emacs info
files with texinfo 4, but that is not a long term option.

This misuse of the escape-glyph face is hardcoded into
startup--setup-quote-display.  It shouldn't be.

So, I'm reduced to hacking the source code to get what urgently needs to
be a user option.

Please, can we have this facility, at long last, controlled by a
customisable option?

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

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