To add to the confusion. If I start a regular emacs (i.e., if I *don't* use
emacs -Q), then elisp buffers *do* display round quotations, but text-mode
buffers still don't.


2015-06-29 13:42 GMT+01:00 Artur Malabarba <bruce.connor.am@gmail.com>:

> 1. Start emacs -Q
> 2. go to *scratch* buffer
> 3. Type C-x RET 8 LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK
>
> At first sight, it seems that a hard quote gets inserted
> instead. Examining it with `describe-char' (below) reveals that it is
> indeed a
> round quote, but the display table is hiding it.
> Note that the display table hides it even on the Help buffer itself!
>
> The same happens for double quotes. And it's not exlusive to elisp
> mode (I tested fundamental and text modes as well).
> I haven't managed to follow all of the quote-gate conversation, but
> I'm assuming this is a bug, as I can't think of a situation where it
> would be right to mask a double quote the user has explicitly typed.
>
> ---
>
>              position: 411 of 3041 (13%), column: 0
>             character: ‘ (displayed as ‘) (codepoint 8216, #o20030, #x2018)
>     preferred charset: unicode (Unicode (ISO10646))
> code point in charset: 0x2018
>                script: symbol
>                syntax: . which means: punctuation
>              category: .:Base, c:Chinese, h:Korean, j:Japanese
>              to input: type "C-x 8 RET 2018" or "C-x 8 RET LEFT SINGLE
> QUOTATION MARK"
>           buffer code: #xE2 #x80 #x98
>             file code: #xE2 #x80 #x98 (encoded by coding system
> utf-8-emacs)
>               display: by display table entry [?'] (see below)
>
> The display table entry is displayed by these fonts (glyph codes):
> ': xft:-unknown-Ubuntu
> Mono-normal-normal-normal-*-13-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1 (#x0A)
>
> Character code properties: customize what to show
>   name: LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK
>   old-name: SINGLE TURNED COMMA QUOTATION MARK
>   general-category: Pi (Punctuation, Initial quote)
>   decomposition: (8216) ('‘')
>
> There are text properties here:
>   fontified            t
>
> In GNU Emacs 25.0.50.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.23)
>  of 2015-06-01 on it055607
> Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11501000
> System Description: Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS
>
> Configured features:
> XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG SOUND GSETTINGS NOTIFY GNUTLS LIBXML2 FREETYPE XFT
> ZLIB
>
> Important settings:
>   value of $LANG: en_GB
>   value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=ibus
>   locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1-unix
>
> Major mode: Lisp Interaction
>
> Minor modes in effect:
>   tooltip-mode: t
>   global-eldoc-mode: t
>   electric-indent-mode: t
>   mouse-wheel-mode: t
>   tool-bar-mode: t
>   menu-bar-mode: t
>   file-name-shadow-mode: t
>   global-font-lock-mode: t
>   font-lock-mode: t
>   blink-cursor-mode: t
>   auto-composition-mode: t
>   auto-encryption-mode: t
>   auto-compression-mode: t
>   line-number-mode: t
>
>
>
>