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Further notes about quotation marks in the manual

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* doc/lispref/tips.texi (Documentation Tips): Note that we
previously recommended using single quotation marks (bug#55780).
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@ -707,7 +707,11 @@ Note that when Emacs displays these doc strings, Emacs will usually
display @samp{`} (grave accent) as @samp{‘} (left single quotation
mark) and @samp{'} (apostrophe) as @samp{’} (right single quotation
mark), if the display supports displaying these characters.
@xref{Keys in Documentation}.
@xref{Keys in Documentation}. (Some previous versions of this section
recommended using the non-@acronym{ASCII} single quotation marks
directly in doc strings, but this is now discouraged, since that leads
to broken help string displays on terminals that don't support
displaying those characters.)
@cindex hyperlinks in documentation strings
Help mode automatically creates a hyperlink when a documentation string