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Re: Translation of single quotes in doc strings is now optional.
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: Translation of single quotes in doc strings is now optional. |
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Fri, 19 Jun 2015 20:33:10 -0400 |
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> I've just committed an enhancement to C-h f, C-h v, such that ` and '
> are no longer translated mandatorily into their curly equivalents for
> display. There is a new customisable variable, `help-quote-translation'
> (in the Help group) which takes one of the values nil (default),
> 'traditional, and 'prefer-unicode, which directs C-h f and C-h v which
> direction, if any, to translate single quotes in.
That's a good feature. Note that we deprecate the practice of writing
a singlequote before a symbol to indicate it is a symbol.
Is it possible to determine automatically whether the terminal
can display curly quotes, and set the variable accordingly?
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Dr Richard Stallman
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