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

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 08/24/2015 11:20 PM, Richard Stallman wrote:

> For overall ease of maintenance, I think we should discourage use of
> curly quotes and other non-ASCII characters in comments within Emacs
> sources and Emacs packages, because they are a _gratuitous_ impediment
> to some developers' editing the sources.  That is, they cause trouble
> for some, while providing no _practical_ benefit to anyone.

I would rephrase that instead to simply disallow non-ASCII characters in 
the *syntax* of Emacs comments (C and Lisp). If someone wants to write a 
comment in their native, non-English language, that is, of course, fine.