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bug#20926: 25.0.50; Quotation marks always display as hard quotes


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: bug#20926: 25.0.50; Quotation marks always display as hard quotes
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2015 17:56:26 +0300

> Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2015 13:42:18 +0100
> From: Artur Malabarba <bruce.connor.am@gmail.com>
> 
> 1. Start emacs -Q
> 2. go to *scratch* buffer
> 3. Type C-x RET 8 LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK
> 
> At first sight, it seems that a hard quote gets inserted
> instead. Examining it with `describe-char' (below) reveals that it is indeed a
> round quote, but the display table is hiding it.
> Note that the display table hides it even on the Help buffer itself!
> 
> The same happens for double quotes. And it's not exlusive to elisp
> mode (I tested fundamental and text modes as well).
> I haven't managed to follow all of the quote-gate conversation, but
> I'm assuming this is a bug, as I can't think of a situation where it
> would be right to mask a double quote the user has explicitly typed.

I cannot reproduce this.  What does the below say in that session?

  M-: (char-displayable-p #x2018) RET







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