[TIP] Get rid of the `foo' eyesore

[Jesper Harder]

There's an entrenched habit in Emacs and Info of abusing ` (grave
accent) and ' (apostrophe) as left and right single quotation marks.

They aren't, and it looks horrible.

Some old broken X fonts do have the "wrong" glyphs in those positions
-- that's probably how the habit started.  But fortunately there's a
better way to get rid of the eyesore than using a broken font.  By
modifying the display table like this

  (aset standard-display-table ?` [342392])  ; ‘
  (aset standard-display-table ?' [342393])  ; ’

you can get proper, nice looking single quotes.  This assumes that
your font has the required glyphs [U+2018 and U+2019], of course.