Re: master ff4de1b: Fix quoting style in Lisp comments

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>,  Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
>   Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>,  Emacs developers
>  <emacs-devel@gnu.org>,  martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>,  Dmitry Gutov
>  <dgutov@yandex.ru>,  Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>,  Juri
>  Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
> Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2021 15:22:12 -0400
> 
> > The point is not to discuss whether Unicode makes a better distinction
> > between different kinds of quotation marks and apostrophe.  It does,
> > obviously.  But (1) these characters are difficult to enter on most
> > keyboards, (2) it is not realistic to expect that keyboards will change, as
> > 99.9% users do not need or even understand those subtleties, and word
> 
> 100% agreement.  My preference for using a well-defined convention based
> on some existing markup language is that the text is then plain ASCII
> (and hence easy to type and to display) but we can additionally prettify
> it in a reliable way if the user cares about it.

The GNU preferences are described in standards.texi, and we should
follow them, not our personal preferences.