[debbugs-tracker] bug#20926: closed (25.0.50; Quotation marks always display as hard quotes)

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regarding 25.0.50; Quotation marks always display as hard quotes
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> 25.0.50; Quotation marks always display as hard quotes
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> Mon, 29 Jun 2015 13:42:18 +0100
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> 1. Start emacs -Q
> 2. go to *scratch* buffer
> 3. Type C-x RET 8 LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK
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> 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!
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> 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.
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>              position: 411 of 3041 (13%), column: 0
>             character: ‘ (displayed as ‘) (codepoint 8216, #o20030, #x2018)
>     preferred charset: unicode (Unicode (ISO10646))
> code point in charset: 0x2018
>                script: symbol
>                syntax: . which means: punctuation
>              category: .:Base, c:Chinese, h:Korean, j:Japanese
>              to input: type "C-x 8 RET 2018" or "C-x 8 RET LEFT SINGLE
> QUOTATION MARK"
>           buffer code: #xE2 #x80 #x98
>             file code: #xE2 #x80 #x98 (encoded by coding system utf-8-emacs)
>               display: by display table entry [?'] (see below)
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> The display table entry is displayed by these fonts (glyph codes):
> ': xft:-unknown-Ubuntu
> Mono-normal-normal-normal-*-13-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1 (#x0A)
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> Character code properties: customize what to show
>   name: LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK
>   old-name: SINGLE TURNED COMMA QUOTATION MARK
>   general-category: Pi (Punctuation, Initial quote)
>   decomposition: (8216) ('‘')
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> There are text properties here:
>   fontified            t
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> In GNU Emacs 25.0.50.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.23)
>  of 2015-06-01 on it055607
> Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11501000
> System Description: Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS
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> Configured features:
> XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG SOUND GSETTINGS NOTIFY GNUTLS LIBXML2 FREETYPE XFT
> ZLIB
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> Important settings:
>   value of $LANG: en_GB
>   value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=ibus
>   locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1-unix
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> Major mode: Lisp Interaction
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> Minor modes in effect:
>   tooltip-mode: t
>   global-eldoc-mode: t
>   electric-indent-mode: t
>   mouse-wheel-mode: t
>   tool-bar-mode: t
>   menu-bar-mode: t
>   file-name-shadow-mode: t
>   global-font-lock-mode: t
>   font-lock-mode: t
>   blink-cursor-mode: t
>   auto-composition-mode: t
>   auto-encryption-mode: t
>   auto-compression-mode: t
>   line-number-mode: t
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> Artur Malabarba wrote:
> > Thanks Paul, I can confirm it's fixed for me
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> Thanks for checking; marking this as done.
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