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

[Paul Eggert]

Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> Nobody having to type "Ó" on a Spanish keyboard layout
> would have any trouble.

Spanish keyboards typically do not have "Ó", so your restrictive definition of 
"working" would say that "Ó" is trouble even on a Spanish keyboard.

> On the contrary, holding down <AltGr> while typing on the numeric
> keypad, successively 2, 0, 1, 8 or 2, 0, 1, 9 is laborious indeed, even
> assuming that these codes have been retained in memory.  For that is
> what a user with a normal keyboard layout, outside of Emacs, will be
> forced to do.

The criterion cannot be that any text editor in any configuration should be able 
to edit Emacs source code with no trouble.  That hasn't ever been true.  All 
that's needed is that people be able to edit their source code in Emacs, with 
occasional use by other text editors, when properly configured.  All modern text 
editors can handle UTF-8 text files when properly configured, so this is not a 
problem.  I just now checked 'less' and 'vim', for example, and they work fine 
with UTF-8 curved quotes even on the Linux console if it's properly configured.