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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: bruce.connor.am@gmail.com
Cc: 20926@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20926: 25.0.50; Quotation marks always display as hard quotes
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2015 17:56:26 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83381a5zs5.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAdUY-LJVT5oeHMY3X3h0sUVnYyo+xczvm=cOAjgTaeyGNTSfw@mail.gmail.com>

> Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2015 13:42:18 +0100
> From: 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.

I cannot reproduce this.  What does the below say in that session?

  M-: (char-displayable-p #x2018) RET







  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-06-29 14:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-29 12:42 bug#20926: 25.0.50; Quotation marks always display as hard quotes Artur Malabarba
2015-06-29 12:48 ` bruce.connor.am
2015-06-29 13:14   ` Artur Malabarba
2015-06-29 15:02     ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-06-29 15:10       ` Artur Malabarba
2015-06-29 15:22         ` Artur Malabarba
2015-06-29 15:32           ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-06-29 15:38             ` Artur Malabarba
2015-06-29 16:18               ` Artur Malabarba
2015-06-29 16:57                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-06-29 19:23         ` Artur Malabarba
2015-06-29 14:56 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2015-06-29 15:08   ` Artur Malabarba
2015-07-02  5:42 ` Paul Eggert
2015-07-02 10:12   ` Artur Malabarba
2015-07-02 14:11     ` Paul Eggert
2015-07-02 14:46   ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-07-02 16:34     ` Paul Eggert
2015-07-02 16:41       ` Eli Zaretskii

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