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On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Paul Jarc wrote:

> > Emacs should display "`" in doc strings as whatever the Unicode
> > character represent the "single quote begin" glyph when possible,
>
> Maybe.  If so, that'll be a kluge to work around the mistake of using
> ` in the first place.  Ultimately, ` ought to be phased out as a quote
> character.

Someone needs to fix the Unicode fonts before the argument of switching
has much effect on me -- for me ASCII `' looks better than Unicode `' in
Emacs, and the reverse is the only reason I've heard for switching
(that ASCII `' looks bad for some people, that is).  Emacs 21 and fonts
from RedHat 7.1.