Re: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-25 26b56dc: Fix some single quotes in documentation

[Paul Eggert]

On 03/14/2016 10:03 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Are we sure NEWS will always be read either in Emacs or on a terminal
> that supports these characters?  I frequently look at it with Less,
> but maybe I'm alone.

I use Less a lot too, and it works fine (Fedora 23). These days the 
problem with non-ASCII characters typically isn't the Less program, it's 
the terminal or operating system being misconfigured for UTF-8, or not 
supporting UTF-8. This problem is not limited to etc/NEWS of course; it 
occurs with all the UTF-8 source files. The question is whether etc/NEWS 
is enough of a special case that we should keep it in ASCII despite the 
rest of Emacs moving to UTF-8.