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

[Nikolai Weibull]

On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 2:37 PM, Richard Stallman <address@hidden> wrote:

>   > > For instance, how will this affect developers whose terminals won't
>   > > display curly quotes, in editing the source code?
>   > > How does Emacs display curly quotes on such terminals?
>
>   > In those cases, we use a display table to display them as their ASCII
>   > equivalents.

> Are the ASCII equivalents of the two curly braces ` and '?

I assume so, even though the true “equivalents” are ‘'’ and ‘'’.
ASCII doesn’t have a unique left and right single (or double)
quotation mark, instead employing a straight “bastardization” of one.

> That is not a grave problem, but it is a problem.

Great pun, Richard :-)