Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs.

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Richard Stallman <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2015 09:55:27 -0400
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> For instance, how will this affect developers whose terminals won't
> display curly quotes, in editing the source code?
> How does Emacs display curly quotes on such terminals?

In those cases, we use a display table to display them as their ASCII
equivalents.  (The fact that the terminal doesn't support the curved
quotes is determined at Emacs startup.)