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  > > verilog-mode.el:14003:1:Warning: unescaped character literals ; detected!

  > Now that I see it, the error message should say ?; rather than ;
  > since some people may not immediately know what is a character literal
  > in this context.

Our convention for messages that mention some text
is to put `...' around that text.