Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs.

[Richard Stallman]

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I think we should aim to represent Lisp code as ASCII so it can be
edited without an input method.

This is a separate question from how Emacs should represent quotations
when it displays doc strings and error messages.  If we indicate quotes
in doc strings and messages using a recognizable convention, the functions
involved can display them however we wish -- or however the user wishes.
It could display them as '...', or as `...', or as Unicode curly quotes
if the terminal can display Unicode curly quotes.

The reason I originally adopted `...' was to permit nested quotations.

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Dr Richard Stallman
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