bug#21472: 25.0.50; REGRESSION: (emacs) `Coding Systems' uses curly quotes for Lisp strings

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2015 08:45:01 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> 
>    In addition to converting various representations of non-ASCII
>  characters, a coding system can perform end-of-line conversion.  Emacs
>  handles three different conventions for how to separate lines in a file:
>  newline ("unix"), carriage-return linefeed ("dos"), and just
>  carriage-return ("mac").
> 
> Why curly double-quotes here?

These are literal strings, so they are quoted.

> Either those quoted names are supposed
> to be Lisp strings or they are proper names.  In the latter case they
> should not be quoted at all, and they should be properly capitalized.
> In the former case (which is what I'm guessing is meant), plain ASCII
> double-quote chars should be used.

Latest versions of makeinfo convert ``...'' into “...”.  That's life,
you should get used to it.  It won't go away, no matter how many "bug
reports" you will file for that.