bug#31815: 27.0; Inappropriate use of curly quotes in `info.el'

[Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>]

On 13 July 2018 at 11:57, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:
>> > In `info.el' there are three occurrences of this (these are curly
>> > quotes, in case that doesn't come through in the bug-report system):
>> >
>> >   Index for '%s'
>> >
>> > They were all changed from this text:
>> >
>> >   Index for `%s'
>> >
>> > The latter text should be restored.
>>
>> I don't understand what's so special in these 3 occurrences.
>> Info
>   ^^^^
>> buffers are full of curly quotes; the commands that use the above
>> generate Info buffers from portions of other Info buffers, and add a
>> header line.  So why should the header lines use different style of
>> quotes from the rest of the buffer?
>
> I just got a copy of the control msg for this bug, saying
> that it has been closed (I haven't received the usual help
> msg for the bug filer saying that it was closed, however.)

Perhaps you misread the control message? I set the bug to severity
minor and tagged it notabug (to summarize Eli's response, which I
basically agree with), but I didn't close it, and looking at
https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=31815, it is not closed.

> The bug report was about the occurrence of such curly quotes
> in the Lisp sources (`info.el'), not about their appearance
> in Info files.  So your reply does not make sense to me.

The curly quotes in the source are there to produce curly quotes in
Info buffers. We want to produce curly quotes in info buffers to match
the rest of the buffer content which comes from Info files which have
curly quotes in them. Your suggestion to restore the ascii quotes
would produce a buffer of mixed quoting styles.