Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ce1d38: Use curved quotes in core elisp diagnostics

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
> Cc: Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>,
>     acm@muc.de,
>     eggert@cs.ucla.edu,
>     emacs-devel@gnu.org,
>     dgutov@yandex.ru
> Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2015 14:19:17 +0900
> 
> > And once again, when all is said and done, and the [Windows-]
>  > ported code handles Unicode characters correctly when writing to the
>  > console, you are back at the console font problem I mentioned above:
>  > anything outside the European locales is downright impossible, and
>  > inside Europe you have only the ugly Lucida Console font.
> 
> Not to prejudge the overall issue, as there are many users of free
> environments opposed to the curvely quotes, but seriously: you
> complain that you use non-free software and its vendor doesn't support
> a proposed Emacs feature?

I didn't complain.  You are confusing me with someone else.  I have no
problem with these quotes, the way they are currently supported by
Emacs.  You won't find me arguing against them in this thread (or any
other thread).

What I did was describe the situation on Windows in this respect in
response to a specific post that IMO misrepresented it.  I believe
Emacs behavior when displaying curved quotes on the Windows console is
adequate, but that doesn't mean the problems we are facing there don't
exist, or can be dismissed or easily solved.  I reported one such
minor problem lately, and Paul fixed it in a way that I consider
satisfactory.

> Surely this should not be a consideration in Emacs development -- if
> Emacs features can be supported on Windows or Mac, fine, do it, but
> Windows or Mac lack of support for an Emacs feature is no reason to
> avoid installing that feature.

Red herring.  I never said nor did anything to the contrary.  I
actually wrote some (small part) of the code to support this feature.
You are confusing me with someone else.