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bug#23425: master branch: `message' wrongly corrupts ' to curly quote.
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Andreas Schwab |
Subject: |
bug#23425: master branch: `message' wrongly corrupts ' to curly quote. |
Date: |
Wed, 04 May 2016 23:49:16 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.93 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> > > Surely it should be a configuration variable. Some people, like me,
>> > > don't like being lied to by a computer program.
>>
>> > You are not being lied to. Just think of ` and ' as yet another
>> > format specifier character, not unlike %.
>>
>> They're not - they're literal characters.
>
> So is %.
% has always been documented as being special. The only special
character. Adding more special characters is an incompatible change and
breaks existing uses.
Andreas.
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"And now for something completely different."
- bug#23425: master branch: `message' wrongly corrupts ' to curly quote., (continued)
- bug#23425: master branch: `message' wrongly corrupts ' to curly quote., Eli Zaretskii, 2016/05/05
- bug#23425: master branch: `message' wrongly corrupts ' to curly quote., Alan Mackenzie, 2016/05/05
- bug#23425: master branch: `message' wrongly corrupts ' to curly quote., Eli Zaretskii, 2016/05/05
- bug#23425: master branch: `message' wrongly corrupts ' to curly quote., John Wiegley, 2016/05/05
- bug#23425: master branch: `message' wrongly corrupts ' to curly quote., Nicolas Petton, 2016/05/06
- bug#23425: master branch: `message' wrongly corrupts ' to curly quote., Eli Zaretskii, 2016/05/04
- bug#23425: master branch: `message' wrongly corrupts ' to curly quote.,
Andreas Schwab <=