Re: ASCII-only startup message?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Random832 <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2015 13:41:12 -0500
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> > The adverse effect of inserting non-ASCII characters shows when your
> > locale's codeset is not UTF-8: if you want to save that buffer or any
> > part of it that includes this comment, you get annoyed by the request
> > to specify a suitable encoding (because *scratch* correctly starts
> > with the locale's default encoding).
> 
> Under what circumstances does it insert non-ASCII characters in the
> first place? Is this a new feature in Emacs 25?

It is a new feature of Emacs 25 that substitute-command-keys by
default converts several quote characters, including the apostrophe,
into the corresponding Unicode "curved quote" characters.