bug#25483: 26.0.50; Not possible to put ASCII quote in result of format-message

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Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com> writes:

> Evaluate:
>
> (format-message "'")
> "’"
> (format-message "\\='")
> "\\=’"
>
> Note that it is apparently impossible to put an ASCII quote into the
> result of format-message.  Quoting with \= doesn't appear to work.
>

You can do (format-message "%s" "'").