From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>, eggert@cs.ucla.edu, 23425@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#23425: master branch: `message' wrongly corrupts ' to curly quote.
Date: Wed, 04 May 2016 23:49:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d1p17aub.fsf@linux-m68k.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83twidj0tj.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 04 May 2016 18:32:40 +0300")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> > > Surely it should be a configuration variable. Some people, like me,
>> > > don't like being lied to by a computer program.
>>
>> > You are not being lied to. Just think of ` and ' as yet another
>> > format specifier character, not unlike %.
>>
>> They're not - they're literal characters.
>
> So is %.
% has always been documented as being special. The only special
character. Adding more special characters is an incompatible change and
breaks existing uses.
Andreas.
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Thread overview: 99+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-02 14:55 bug#23425: master branch: `message' wrongly corrupts ' to curly quote Alan Mackenzie
2016-05-02 16:25 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-05-02 16:41 ` Drew Adams
2016-05-02 17:53 ` Paul Eggert
2016-05-02 19:10 ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-05-03 15:17 ` Paul Eggert
2016-05-03 16:36 ` Drew Adams
2016-05-03 16:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-05-03 15:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-05-03 16:27 ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-05-03 16:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-05-03 20:03 ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-05-03 20:49 ` Paul Eggert
2016-05-04 15:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-05-04 16:48 ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-05-04 17:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-05-04 17:37 ` Josh
2016-05-04 19:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-05-04 18:04 ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-05-04 18:39 ` Paul Eggert
2016-05-04 18:57 ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-05-04 19:02 ` John Wiegley
2016-05-04 21:34 ` Paul Eggert
2016-05-04 21:50 ` Paul Eggert
2016-05-04 23:49 ` Paul Eggert
2016-05-05 15:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-05-10 14:41 ` Paul Eggert
2017-05-31 1:07 ` Glenn Morris
2017-05-31 1:42 ` Paul Eggert
2017-05-31 21:24 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-05-31 23:26 ` Paul Eggert
2017-06-02 21:02 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-06-02 21:15 ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-06-03 21:10 ` Alan Mackenzie
[not found] ` <20170603211010.GD2130@acm.fritz.box>
2017-06-03 21:32 ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-06-02 21:47 ` Paul Eggert
2017-06-03 0:13 ` Glenn Morris
2017-06-03 21:01 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-06-03 20:53 ` Alan Mackenzie
[not found] ` <20170603205331.GA2130@acm.fritz.box>
2017-06-04 21:01 ` Paul Eggert
2017-06-05 16:27 ` Alan Mackenzie
[not found] ` <20170605162737.GA30946@acm.fritz.box>
2017-06-05 18:19 ` Paul Eggert
[not found] ` <ac90b979-6a37-29c4-03b3-6322ac2cc11a@cs.ucla.edu>
2017-06-05 18:31 ` Andreas Schwab
2017-06-05 20:37 ` Alan Mackenzie
[not found] ` <20170605203753.GB30946@acm.fritz.box>
2017-06-05 21:05 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-06-07 16:50 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-06-07 19:29 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-06-06 0:14 ` Paul Eggert
2017-06-06 8:21 ` Andreas Schwab
[not found] ` <mvmtw3tsf05.fsf@suse.de>
2017-06-06 12:24 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
[not found] ` <fa92f34f-982b-e9a5-be21-188e694e38d9@gmail.com>
2017-06-06 13:55 ` Yuri Khan
[not found] ` <CAP_d_8X7V_G4g7emn_EPd_YYPKu2HfnDE+Q3FOPMGXpB4sEYSw@mail.gmail.com>
2017-06-06 18:21 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-06-06 18:59 ` Yuri Khan
[not found] ` <CAP_d_8X5OBsQQ=0+dj-qYFV3yEC4WZVMpyRw1KyiM0tvJUNFMw@mail.gmail.com>
2017-06-06 19:39 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
[not found] ` <10515b89-1c60-227e-ff3d-3127f59c0daf@gmail.com>
2017-06-07 4:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-06 23:09 ` Paul Eggert
2017-06-07 7:44 ` Andreas Schwab
2017-06-07 18:17 ` Paul Eggert
2017-06-08 8:04 ` Andreas Schwab
2017-06-07 13:27 ` Drew Adams
2017-06-07 19:13 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-06-07 19:27 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
[not found] ` <966db090-4aa1-231c-ef5a-370ece8905d1@gmail.com>
2017-06-07 19:33 ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-06-07 19:51 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-06-07 20:33 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-06-07 23:28 ` Paul Eggert
2017-06-08 17:34 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-06-08 20:17 ` Paul Eggert
2017-06-09 19:41 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-06-09 20:17 ` Drew Adams
2017-06-09 20:38 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-06-09 21:05 ` Drew Adams
2017-06-09 21:44 ` Paul Eggert
2017-06-09 22:51 ` Drew Adams
2017-06-10 0:20 ` Paul Eggert
2017-06-10 10:01 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-06-10 10:52 ` David Engster
2017-06-10 11:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-10 13:01 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-06-10 13:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-11 10:03 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-06-11 14:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-10 15:28 ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-06-01 16:56 ` Glenn Morris
2017-06-03 21:07 ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-05-04 18:46 ` John Wiegley
2016-05-04 20:23 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-05-04 21:15 ` John Wiegley
2016-05-04 22:19 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-05-05 7:12 ` Andreas Schwab
2016-05-05 17:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-05-05 8:06 ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-05-05 17:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-05-05 23:46 ` John Wiegley
2016-05-06 8:54 ` Nicolas Petton
2016-05-04 19:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-05-04 21:49 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2017-06-09 20:31 ` Glenn Morris
2017-06-10 7:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
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