Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ffb6ce 5/5: Quoting fixes in lisp/international and lisp/leim

[Paul Eggert]

Stefan Monnier wrote:
> I'm not even sure if "don’t" is typographically
> better than "don't" (after all, last I checked the little thingy is
> supposed to be an "apostrophe", not a "right single quotation mark").

Typographically it's not an issue: in non-typewriter English, U+2019 RIGHT 
SINGLE QUOTATION MARK is supposed to be use for elision (“don’t”), for closing a 
single quotation (“He said ‘no’.”) and for grammar (“Those are my sisters’ 
books.”).  It's the same character for all three.  See, for example, 
<http://www.languagegeek.com/typography/apostrophes.html>.

> I don't see a strong need to go through extra efforts to convert
> "don't" to "don’t".

Me neither, but most of the "don't"s are converted automatically anyway, and I 
figured it's not hard to convert the few odd stragglers if only to avoid 
complaints from typography obsessives down the road....