GNU bug report logs - #30405
26.0.91; Incorrect apostrophe translation in ImageMagick error message

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Gemini Lasswell <gazally <at> runbox.com>

Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2018 21:15:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in versions 26.0.91, 25.1

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: gazally <at> runbox.com, eliz <at> gnu.org, 30405 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net
Subject: bug#30405: 26.0.91; Incorrect apostrophe translation in ImageMagick error message
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2018 16:30:55 -0500

[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider    ]]]
[[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,     ]]]
[[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]

  > This made sense back in the 1990s when unibyte was commonly used for text. 
  > Nowadays, though, wouldn't it make more sense to keep the echo area multibyte? 
  > The echo area is intended for text, not for binary data.

I agree in principle.  But I don't know how much work the change would
be.

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