From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 21472-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#21472: 25.0.50; REGRESSION: (emacs) `Coding Systems' uses curly quotes for Lisp strings
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2015 23:07:27 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83vbbe9j7k.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c7ebc07d-51c9-4d10-9238-d42b0b3845b7@default>
> Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2015 08:45:01 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
>
> In addition to converting various representations of non-ASCII
> characters, a coding system can perform end-of-line conversion. Emacs
> handles three different conventions for how to separate lines in a file:
> newline ("unix"), carriage-return linefeed ("dos"), and just
> carriage-return ("mac").
>
> Why curly double-quotes here?
These are literal strings, so they are quoted.
> Either those quoted names are supposed
> to be Lisp strings or they are proper names. In the latter case they
> should not be quoted at all, and they should be properly capitalized.
> In the former case (which is what I'm guessing is meant), plain ASCII
> double-quote chars should be used.
Latest versions of makeinfo convert ``...'' into “...”. That's life,
you should get used to it. It won't go away, no matter how many "bug
reports" you will file for that.
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2015-09-13 15:45 bug#21472: 25.0.50; REGRESSION: (emacs) `Coding Systems' uses curly quotes for Lisp strings Drew Adams
2015-09-13 20:07 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2015-09-13 21:11 ` Drew Adams
2015-09-14 6:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-14 14:08 ` Richard Stallman
2015-09-15 15:57 ` Paul Eggert
2015-09-15 16:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-15 16:22 ` Paul Eggert
2015-09-15 23:48 ` Drew Adams
2015-09-15 16:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-15 19:15 ` Paul Eggert
2015-09-15 23:48 ` Drew Adams
2015-09-16 6:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-16 7:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-16 7:48 ` Paul Eggert
2015-09-16 10:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-15 23:48 ` Drew Adams
2015-09-15 23:48 ` Drew Adams
2015-09-16 7:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-16 7:49 ` Paul Eggert
2015-09-16 10:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-16 15:31 ` Paul Eggert
2015-09-16 17:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-16 18:27 ` Paul Eggert
2015-09-16 18:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-16 20:31 ` Paul Eggert
2015-09-17 4:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-17 5:21 ` Paul Eggert
2015-09-17 6:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-17 7:21 ` Paul Eggert
2015-09-17 7:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2015-09-15 23:48 ` Drew Adams
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2015-09-14 13:51 ` Drew Adams
2015-09-15 0:21 ` Richard Stallman
[not found] ` <<55F83FDF.2070202@cs.ucla.edu>
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2015-09-16 15:16 ` Drew Adams
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