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

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 06/23/2015 04:02 PM, Nikolai Weibull wrote:

> It’s probably not worth noting, but that can’t possible be true.  Is
> someone who sees ‘‘’ going to wonder what that symbol means, whereas
> if they see ‘'’ they’ll go “aha!”?

Not confused, but probably a bit weirded out. Pretty much what Oleh said.

> Given that almost all professionally printed literature
> uses real quotation marks, I’d assume that those who are learning
> English will also be given the benefit of them (where native English
> readers will have seen them in books since they were little).

Speaking of printed literature, I've just opened a random O'Reilly's 
book. While curly double-quotes appear a lot, the closest thing to 
single quotes were apostrophes (which look the same, but serve a 
different purpose).