Drew Adams writes: > Of course something about escaping has changed. > \’bar is now read differently from ’bar. Oh, I see. I was considering that since the meaning of \’bar hasn't changed, then escaping hasn't changed (though non-escaped syntax has). Anyway, thinking about this made realize I broke read->print round-tripping for these symbols, because I didn't change print to add the backslash. Attached is a patch which does this, but I'm not sure if it can go into emacs-26. If not, then I think we should at least delay introduction of the reader change to Emacs 27.