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

[Paul Eggert]

Alan Mackenzie wrote:

> I think you know full well what I mean by "working character",

No, actually, I don't.  From my point of view "working character" is a slippery 
notion that mutates when we try to pin it down.  Perhaps we should stick with 
"non-ASCII character"; that's clear.

> Spanish keyboards DO have "Ó", for any sensible value of "have".

Only if properly configured.  If you use these keyboards with the wrong 
settings, Compose ' O won't work, and there's no "Ó" key on the keyboard so 
you'll be stuck.  In these respects "Ó", "‘" and "’" are all in the same 
category on a Spanish keyboard.  And this is OK.

> > 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.
>
> I think it pretty much has been, certainly for all but a few special
> files, up until the last few days.

No, it hasn't been true *at all*.  It's quite common for Japanese keyboards to 
lack a ‘\’ key, for example.  And this is OK too.

> I think you're agreeing with me that to work with curly quotes using
> these tools, you're going to be having to enter their hex codes

Not at all.  That would be silly.  I never use hex codes to enter these 
characters.