bug#20926: 25.0.50; Quotation marks always display as hard quotes

[Artur Malabarba]

2015-06-29 16:10 GMT+01:00 Artur Malabarba <bruce.connor.am@gmail.com>:
>> Go to that left quotation mark on the decomposition line, and type
>> "C-u C-x =".  That should give you a hint about what's going on there.

Here's the output of doing that.
It's slightly different from the previous help buffer. I've added some
comments to describe how it shows up for me.

             position: 967 of 1036 (93%), column: 26
#                 Hard v               v Round
            character: ” (displayed as ”) (codepoint 8221, #o20035, #x201d)
    preferred charset: unicode (Unicode (ISO10646))
code point in charset: 0x201D
               script: symbol
               syntax: . which means: punctuation
             category: .:Base, c:Chinese, h:Korean, j:Japanese
             to input: type "C-x 8 RET 201d" or "C-x 8 RET RIGHT
DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK"
          buffer code: #xE2 #x80 #x9D
            file code: not encodable by coding system iso-latin-1-unix
#                                          Hard v
              display: by display table entry [?"] (see below)

The display table entry is displayed by these fonts (glyph codes):
#v Hard
": xft:-unknown-Ubuntu
Mono-normal-normal-normal-*-13-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1 (#x05)

Composed by the rule:
#         v Round
(TAB ?” TAB)
The component character(s) are displayed by these fonts (glyph codes):
#v Round
 ”: xft:-unknown-Ubuntu
Mono-normal-normal-normal-*-13-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1 (#x71)
See the variable `reference-point-alist' for the meaning of the rule.

Character code properties: customize what to show
  name: RIGHT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK
  old-name: DOUBLE COMMA QUOTATION MARK
  general-category: Pf (Punctuation, Final quote)
#                         v Round
  decomposition: (8221) ('”')

There are text properties here:
  composition          [Show]     The value here is (4 1 [9 8221 9])


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