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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Richard Stallman <address@hidden>
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> Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2015 18:21:08 -0400
> 
>   > > Are the ASCII equivalents of the two curly braces ` and '?
> 
>   > No, they are ' and ', in line with the recommendations of the GNU
>   > Coding Standards.
> 
> Does this mean that both curly braces, in Emacs Lisp doc strings,
> will appear as ' on a terminal which can't display curly braces?

Yes.

> That's a total screw.  Developers using such a display
> will not be able to distinguish the two.

"C-x =" can tell the difference.  But yes, it's not very convenient.
However, standards.texi was recommending to quote 'like this' for
quite some time now, so I think that ship sailed long ago.

> If they display as ` and ', editing will be feasible once
> you understand the convention.  If they both display as ',
> it makes no sense to try this even as an experiment.

You can customize the display table if you want.  This is Emacs, after
all.