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

[Richard Stallman]

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Oops.  I meant to write "quotes", not "braces".  It should be:

  > > Are the ASCII equivalents of the two curly quotes ` and '?

  > No, they are ' and ', in line with the recommendations of the GNU
  > Coding Standards.

Does this mean that both curly quotes, in Emacs Lisp doc strings,
will appear as ' on a terminal which can't display curly quotes?

That's a total screw.  Developers using such a display
will not be able to distinguish the two.

If they display as ` and ', editing will be feasible once
you understand the convention.  If they both display as ',
it makes no sense to try this even as an experiment.

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