Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ce1d38: Use curved quotes in core elisp diagnostics

[Paul Eggert]

Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> What I object to is_non-working_  characters - characters which appear
> on nobody's keyboard (see Bastien's question about typing curly quotes)
> and are problematic to display (See Eli's recent post, for example).

So you object to having form-feeds in Elisp source code as well?  After all, 
form-feeds are "non-working" by your definition.  :-)

As for the philosophical issue, I'm afraid we'll just have to disagree.  In my 
experience, hackers prefer to scratch the itches they feel personally. 
Discouraging non-ASCII characters even in relatively innocuous contexts like doc 
strings and diagnostics is connected to putting off the task of making it easier 
to edit text with these characters.