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

[Richard Stallman]

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  > (It forms a pair with U+00B4 ACUTE ACCENT: `´ but the latter is
  > outside of the ASCII range, and of course both are unsuitable as
  > quotes.)

Whether they are suitable as quotes in Emacs is for us to decide.

  > The following article (written 15 years ago) summarises the situation
  > well: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/quotes.html

That article may provide pertinent information or arguments, but it
has no authority over us.  In the GNU Project, we do not consider
outside standards as decisions or commands; rather, they are part of
the context in which we consider what is the best thing to do.

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