Subject: Re: bug#30405: 26.0.91; Incorrect apostrophe translation in ImageMagick error message

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2018 07:08:02 +0200

On February 11, 2018 5:41:19 AM GMT+02:00, Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> wrote:
> > Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2018 05:38:50 +0200
> > From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
> > Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked], [email-masked]
> > 
> > > BTW, replace "error" with "message" and the issue does not appear.
> > 
> > Because 'message' doesn't change the quotes.
> 
> Oops, ignore me.  That's not the reason.

The real reason is that 'message' has a string to display, and so can set up
the echo-area buffer according to multibyteness of that string (it does that
using set_message_1), whereas 'princ' and friends cannot do that.  And
'error' calls 'princ'.