On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, harder@myrealbox.com wrote:
Some old broken X fonts do have the "wrong" glyphs in those
positions -- that's probably how the habit started. But fortunately
there's a better way to get rid of the eyesore than using a broken
font. By modifying the display table like this
(aset standard-display-table ?` [342392]) ; ‘
(aset standard-display-table ?' [342393]) ; ’
you can get proper, nice looking single quotes. This assumes that
your font has the required glyphs [U+2018 and U+2019], of course.
This would be a nice minor mode for Gnus and other purposes, how can
it be done so it's suitable for a hook or a minor mode?