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| From: | Paul Eggert |
| Subject: | Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ffb6ce 5/5: Quoting fixes in lisp/international and lisp/leim |
| Date: | Mon, 31 Aug 2015 23:29:50 -0700 |
| User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.2.0 |
Stefan Monnier wrote:
if we have to choose between ' and ’ and there's not a strong reason to prefer the non-ASCII char, we should stick with the ASCII char.
The reason is that it's simpler for ‘message’ etc. to transliterate every apostrophe than to employ more-complicated heuristics that are typically wrong anyway, typographically speaking. But I take your point that I should stop worrying about messages that merely say “Don't”.
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