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bug#25483: 26.0.50; Not possible to put ASCII quote in result of format-


From: Alan Mackenzie
Subject: bug#25483: 26.0.50; Not possible to put ASCII quote in result of format-message
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2017 20:52:43 +0000
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30)

Hello, Philipp.

On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 12:00:49PM +0100, Philipp Stephani wrote:

> Evaluate:

> (format-message "'")
> "’"
> (format-message "\\='")
> "\\=’"

> Note that it is apparently impossible to put an ASCII quote into the
> result of format-message.  Quoting with \= doesn't appear to work.

As somebody else has noted, you need to set or bind text-quoting-style
to the symbol `grave'.

Note that as from 2016-05-10, text-quoting-style no longer translates
curly quotes, so `grave' essentially means "no change to any quoting
character" - which is presumably what you really want.  :-)

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).





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