[debbugs-tracker] bug#24468: closed (Emacs 25.1: Use of face escape-glyph on curly quotes is irritating.)

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quotes is irritating.
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regarding Emacs 25.1: Use of face escape-glyph on curly quotes is irritating.
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> Emacs 25.1: Use of face escape-glyph on curly quotes is irritating.
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> Mon, 19 Sep 2016 10:01:01 +0000
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> Hello, Emacs.
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> In Emacs 25.1, I am using the info files built for the distribution
> using texinfo 5 (?or 6).  They contain lots of curly quotes.
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> On my Linux virtual terminal, these are all displayed with the
> escape-glyph, which is irritating in the extreme.  The workaround of
> customizing escape-glyph to the default face would prevent the effect of
> highlighting things like \377 and ^L, which is the proper use of
> escape-glyph.
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> The only other workaround I can think of is rebuilding the Emacs info
> files with texinfo 4, but that is not a long term option.
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> This misuse of the escape-glyph face is hardcoded into
> startup--setup-quote-display.  It shouldn't be.
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> So, I'm reduced to hacking the source code to get what urgently needs to
> be a user option.
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> Please, can we have this facility, at long last, controlled by a
> customisable option?
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> Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
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--- Begin Message --- Subject: Re: bug#24468: Emacs 25.1: Use of face escape-glyph on curly quotes is irritating. Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2016 22:52:58 -0700 User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.3.0

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> How about 'homo-glyph'? That is more technically accurate anyway, as this
> feature is all about homoglyphs.

Fine with me, thanks.

I installed it as 'homoglyph' via the attached patch, since when I wrote it up 'homo-glyph' was confusing: the English word is 'homoglyph' after all.

0001-New-face-homoglyph.patch
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