Subject: bug#24926: ls output has been made ugly

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2016 17:59:40 -0800

On 11/11/2016 05:20 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> BTW \u2019 might not be the best choice, as I tweeted recently
> (with corresponding quotes in each example):
>
>    It's awkward for file names to use shell quote
>    It’s awkward for word regex to use right quote
>    Itʼs best to use apostrophe modifier (\u02BC)

But U+02BC MODIFIER LETTER APOSTROPHE is not the right character for 
“Groovin’” in English, as that word ends in a punctuation apostrophe, 
not a letter. If this happens to be awkward for regular expressions,we 
should extend the regular-expression syntax to make it less awkward.