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27.0.50; Don't reject confusable quotes, just fontify & mention them in error messages

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From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 32939 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#32939: 27.0.50; Don't reject confusable quotes, just fontify & mention them in error messages
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2018 18:25:53 -0400

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

>> From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>
>> Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2018 19:58:10 -0400
>> 
>> As a followup from [1], here is a patchset which replaces the master's
>> current rejection of confusable quotes on `read', and instead adds a
>> hint to the error message when evaluating an expression with a
>> confusable quote leads to an error.
>> 
>> And also highlight such quotes with warning-face.
>
> Thanks.  If this is accepted, it will need documentation changes,
> including NEWS.

I adjusted the first patch so it applies cleanly to more recent master,
and added a NEWS entry for the fontification.  I'm not sure about what
other documentation we need though.

[v2-0001-Stop-signaling-an-error-when-reading-smart-quotes.patch (text/plain, attachment)]

[v2-0002-Improve-errors-warnings-due-to-fancy-quoted-vars-.patch (text/plain, attachment)]

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