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

[Richard Stallman]

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  > > 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).

That is not a rephrasing.  It's a totally different position.

I'm talking about the contents of comments, not their syntax.
The syntax of Lisp and C comments is well defined
and it does not involve non-ASCII characters.

I'm sayin comments shouldn't contain any non-ASCII characters except
under special circumstances.  I gave two examples of special
circumstances that would justify non-ASCII characters.


  > If someone wants to write a 
  > comment in their native, non-English language, that is, of course, fine.

Not in the Emacs sources.  Comments in GNU packages should always be
in English.  See the GNU Coding Standards, node Comments.

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