RE: how to turn off automatic curly-quoting?

[Drew Adams]

> > You can't have "left quote character" mean both a Unicode
> > left quote character and, in effect, a character variable
> > whose value can be any of several characters, some of which
> > are not, by name, quote chars.
> 
> It means the latter.  The former wouldn't make any sense, as there is no
> single Unicode "left quote character".

You are playing word games.  You are the first to say that
` and ' are not, in any sense, quote characters.  There may
be multiple Unicode left quote characters, but ` is not
one of them, just as ' is not one of the Unicode right quote
chars.

The description is not clear.  That's the point.