Re: weird treatment of ' and `

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <address@hidden>, Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:

> Kenichi Handa <address@hidden> writes:
>>  > Yes, same here.  Unless the author of that change can give a
>>  > compelling reason, I suggest you make that the standard.
>> 
>>  The reason is written as a comment in the code
>>  (mule-cmds.el) as below:
>>  
>>      ;; XFree86 4 has changed most of the fonts from their designed
>>      ;; versions such that `' no longer appears as balanced quotes.
>> 
>>  So, I suggest to undo the above change.

> I also agree.

> This change seems to have more negative effects than positive ones, and
> has caused a great deal of confusion (and it's rather kludgey to boot).

> I seem to recall that the last time we discussed this issue, there was
> at least a vague consensus that it should be reversed*, but nothing was
> ever done.

I've just undone the above change.

Ulrich Neumerkel <address@hidden> writes:

> When invoking emacs without any particular X ressources etc.
> single quotes (') and backquotes (`) are displayed as rectangles.

Sam Halliday <address@hidden> writes:
> upon opening any file, i notice that the symbol ' (single
> quote) is replaced by an empty box... this does not happen
> if i envoke emacs with

I think the bug is fixed by my change.   Could you please
try again?

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Ken'ichi HANDA
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