Re: [TIP] Get rid of the `foo' eyesore

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, harder@myrealbox.com wrote:
> There's an entrenched habit in Emacs and Info of abusing ` (grave
> accent) and ' (apostrophe) as left and right single quotation marks.
> 
> They aren't, and it looks horrible.
> 
> Some old broken X fonts do have the "wrong" glyphs in those
> positions -- that's probably how the habit started.  But fortunately
> there's a better way to get rid of the eyesore than using a broken
> font.  By modifying the display table like this
> 
>   (aset standard-display-table ?` [342392])  ; ‘
>   (aset standard-display-table ?' [342393])  ; ’
> 
> you can get proper, nice looking single quotes.  This assumes that
> your font has the required glyphs [U+2018 and U+2019], of course.

This would be a nice minor mode for Gnus and other purposes, how can
it be done so it's suitable for a hook or a minor mode?

Thanks
Ted