From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: How to opt out of curly-quote spamming altogether? Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2015 18:22:38 +0300 Message-ID: <83fv38hfsx.fsf@gnu.org> References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1440433307 17077 80.91.229.3 (24 Aug 2015 16:21:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2015 16:21:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 24 18:21:39 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZTuV7-0002em-Qz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Aug 2015 18:21:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54979 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZTuV7-0006EP-3a for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Aug 2015 12:21:37 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57812) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZTtaM-0008Rq-SJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Aug 2015 11:22:59 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZTtaH-0008W9-Pb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Aug 2015 11:22:58 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout29.012.net.il ([80.179.55.185]:36603) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZTtaH-0008Vo-Hb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Aug 2015 11:22:53 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout29.012.net.il by mtaout29.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NTL00H00EKKCI00@mtaout29.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Aug 2015 18:22:58 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.94.185.246]) by mtaout29.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NTL00BA5EQA0270@mtaout29.012.net.il>; Mon, 24 Aug 2015 18:22:58 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.185 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:189106 Archived-At: > Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2015 21:16:18 -0700 (PDT) > From: Drew Adams > > `help-quote-translation' does seem to prevent curly quotes in > *Help* buffers, so at least there's that. But I'm looking for > a switch to turn this virus OFF everywhere - to return to > Classic Emacs. Surely such a simple ON/OFF switch exists? It doesn't. What you see in Info is literal characters generated when the documentation is built during the Emacs build process. So, to change that, you will have to regenerate the documentation, telling makeinfo not to produce Unicode characters there. Alternatively, you can set up your standard-display-table to display those characters as their ASCII equivalents.