Re: Translation of single quotes in doc strings is now optional.

[Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>]

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  > I've just committed an enhancement to C-h f, C-h v, such that ` and '
  > are no longer translated mandatorily into their curly equivalents for
  > display.  There is a new customisable variable, `help-quote-translation'
  > (in the Help group) which takes one of the values nil (default),
  > 'traditional, and 'prefer-unicode, which directs C-h f and C-h v which
  > direction, if any, to translate single quotes in.

That's a good feature.  Note that we deprecate the practice of writing
a singlequote before a symbol to indicate it is a symbol.

Is it possible to determine automatically whether the terminal
can display curly quotes, and set the variable accordingly?
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