Re: Backquotes in docstrings

[Markus Kuhn <Markus.Kuhn@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Karl Eichwalder wrote on 2002-01-12 05:38 UTC:
> Emacs Lisp hackers will not stop to use `backquotes' in docstrings.

Why not? They (like m4 hackers, the other group affected by the historic
difference between ANSI X3.4:1968 and ECMA-6/ISO-646) have the choice of
either stubornly sticking with an outdated convention or enjoying a
typographically more pleasing result by updating or extending the
relevant syntax. There are hardly any fonts left today which show 0x60
as a left single quotation mark and 0x27 as a right single quotation
mark.

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/quotes.html

What Emacs Lisp syntax extension could you imagine to solve this?

Markus

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