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


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ce1d38: Use curved quotes in core elisp diagnostics
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2015 14:53:02 -0700
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Nicolas Richard wrote:
I just found out how to type them outside emacs:
<compose> < ' is ‘ and <compose > ' is ’.

Yes, that's a common combination, standard in GTK+ and usable in both Emacs and other apps when running under Gnome. Possibly the combination works for Óscar too.

Óscar Fuentes wrote:
The only way you can have problems with accented letters is
if you lie to the OS saying that your keyboard is not Spanish.

Yes, and I've lied to the OS about that sort of thing with localized keyboards; it happens. We can't expect Emacs to work well in every such misconfiguration.



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