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

[Paul Eggert]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> I meant this part of standards.texi:

I relied on that part of standards.texi as well, when I discussed this display 
issue with you a few weeks ago.  However, this discussion is leading me to see 
that I was mistaken.  The standards.texi document is talking about diagnostics, 
whereas this issue is about display, and they're different things.  If one is 
editing a random text file that contains curved quotes, it's not a diagnostic, 
it's data.

So I think RMS's suggestion is the right one, and that we should change Emacs to 
display ` (not ') for undisplayable left single quotation mark.  I'll prepare a 
patch along those lines assuming there's no objection.