Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ffb6ce 5/5: Quoting fixes in lisp/international and lisp/leim

[Stefan Monnier]

>> I'm not even sure if "don’t" is typographically
>> better than "don't" (after all, last I checked the little thingy is
>> supposed to be an "apostrophe", not a "right single quotation mark").
> Typographically it's not an issue: in non-typewriter English, U+2019 RIGHT
> SINGLE QUOTATION MARK is supposed to be use for elision (“don’t”), for
> closing a single quotation (“He said ‘no’.”) and for grammar (“Those are my
> sisters’ books.”).  It's the same character for all three.  See, for
> example, <http://www.languagegeek.com/typography/apostrophes.html>.

I think in the context of Emacs, if we have to choose between ' and ’
and there's not a strong reason to prefer the non-ASCII char, we
should stick with the ASCII char.

The only thing we're trying to fix here is the ugly `...' quoting.
I don't see any need to change anything else at this stage.


        Stefan