quote characters in luatex

["Thomas A. Schmitz" <thomas.schmitz@uni-bonn.de>]

In my experiments with luatex, there's one thing that may be  
surprising for many users: we have come to expect that the characters  
` and ' in our input files map to single left and single right  
quotation marks. luatex just typesets them "verbatim," so to speak.  
It converts the combination `` and '' to double quotation marks,  
however. So my question: wouldn't it make sense to convert the single  
marks as well? (And please don't tell me "Oh but you should use \quote 
{} instead of ` '." I know that, but I guess that many users have  
hundreds of old documents where they use `'. Moreover, ' also creates  
the apostrophe character, which cannot be avoided.)

Best

Thomas
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