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

[Óscar Fuentes]

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden> writes:

[snip]

> Seriously, now that we do have Unicode, and good implementations of it
> (although Emacs's isn't complete yet, it's certainly usable), there's
> really no excuse for _a priori_ restricting the character set used in
> a computer language.
[snip]

My experience says that there are plenty of *reasons* for being
extremely cautious about using anything other than ASCII in programs,
(including (doc-)strings, to a lesser extrem.)

Just see the issues faced on this topic of curved quotes, and it is a
single case of Unicode use.

I'm all for modernization of Emacs, but this change just doesn't make
sense to me.