On 05/04/2016 11:39 AM, Paul Eggert wrote:
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> I plan to look into the further change you proposed, with an eye 
> toward installing something like it (but I hope simpler)

Attached is a proposed patch to master to do this. It disables 
translation from curved quotes, which means that quote translation now 
affects only ` and ', and it documents that the text-quoting-style 
'grave' therefore suppresses all quote translation. This shortens the 
Emacs source code by forty lines or so, which is a good sign.