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

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 08/23/2015 12:48 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:

> Ah, it sounds like you're worried about misuses like (format filename),
> where FILENAME might contain arbitrary characters including curved
> quotes.  However, code like that has always been buggy, as FILENAME may
> include %% (or % followed by something else, of course) and the
> %-sequences would be misinterpreted too.

They can, but they usually don't. Or the caller could be wise and escape 
'%'.

On the other hand, I thought we wanted to encourage more usage of 
unicode everywhere, probably even including filenames.

I can imagine a filename with ‘’ in it without trying too hard: think of 
an MP3 file the name of which reflects the song's title. And take a 
classical piece, with a complex title. They have quotes on occasion.

It's not limited to filenames, those are just the first thing that came 
to mind.