Backquotes in docstrings (Re: Unicode, character ambiguities)

[Karl Eichwalder <ke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Glenn Maynard <g_lutf8@xxxxxxxx> writes:

> The problem with this is that I suspect most Japanese wouldn't be pleased
> to see backslashes instead of yen symbols.  (It's easy enough to say
> "that's just as bad as the reverse; just do it", but that's not going to
> get any of them to go along with it.)

The same is valid for single quotes, letterless accents, and
apostrophes; yes, I know Markus' article on this issue (and I'm incline
to believe he is right)---but reading Emacs Lisp files in a standard
xterm isn't pleasantly at the moment.  The problem is: UTF-8 will not
improve the situation: Emacs Lisp hackers will not stop to use
`backquotes' in docstrings.

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