From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
To: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
Cc: 25483@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#25483: 26.0.50; Not possible to put ASCII quote in result of format-message
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2017 20:52:43 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170119205243.GA4325@acm.fritz.box> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <wvr4lgu7wbz2.fsf@gmail.com>
Hello, Philipp.
On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 12:00:49PM +0100, Philipp Stephani wrote:
> Evaluate:
> (format-message "'")
> "’"
> (format-message "\\='")
> "\\=’"
> Note that it is apparently impossible to put an ASCII quote into the
> result of format-message. Quoting with \= doesn't appear to work.
As somebody else has noted, you need to set or bind text-quoting-style
to the symbol `grave'.
Note that as from 2016-05-10, text-quoting-style no longer translates
curly quotes, so `grave' essentially means "no change to any quoting
character" - which is presumably what you really want. :-)
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-19 11:00 bug#25483: 26.0.50; Not possible to put ASCII quote in result of format-message Philipp Stephani
2017-01-19 12:45 ` Stephen Berman
2017-01-19 12:56 ` npostavs
2017-01-19 20:52 ` Alan Mackenzie [this message]
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