Re: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-25 26b56dc: Fix some single quotes in documentation

[Paul Eggert]

On 03/14/2016 01:56 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> > >The above would all run afoul of Eli's desire to use other programs to
> > >read etc/NEWS as-is, though.
> Mine, too.

OK, I installed a patch that reverts etc/NEWS's recent change to curved 
quotes, and while I was at it I changed etc/NEWS so that it does not 
need the other non-ASCII characters that it was using. For the record, 
these non-ASCII characters were:

“ ” ‐ ‑ ‒ – — ― ‘ ’ “ ” † ‡ • ′ ″ € № ← → ↔ − ≈ ≠ ≤ ≥ ℀ ℁ ⒜ ⓐ      (<-- 
there are unusual space-like characters here, unless my mailer spirits 
them away...)