Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ce1d38: Use curved quotes in core elisp diagnostics

[Paul Eggert]

Alan Mackenzie wrote:

> Well, as I said, I edit texts with non-ascii characters frequently, and
> don't experience any particular difficulty with them.  Having to type in
> a decimal/hex code for a non-working character (or, even worse, having
> to look up an input method for it) just stops me in my tracks.  An
> example is when I reply to Óscar, "Ó" being outside my working character
> set.
>
> > Emacs currently makes it harder to deal with non-ASCII and/or
> > non-working characters than it could.
>
> Could you give an example of this (pertaining, preferably, to non-ascii
> working characters)?

You gave an example in your previous paragraph, where you're stopped in your 
tracks if you have to type "Ó" into Emacs.

> Whatever problem that might be, the solution surely cannot be
> artificially to inflict it on ourselves.

There's nothing artificial about using a character to represent itself in 
typical usage in a doc string or a diagnostic.  What's artificial is requiring 
users to laboriously type and read ASCII-only circumlocutions instead.