@cindex curved quotes
@cindex guillemets
@findex electric-quote-mode
+@c The funny quoting below is to make the printed version look
+@c correct. FIXME.
One common way to quote is the typewriter convention, which quotes
using straight apostrophes @t{'like this'} or double-quotes @t{"like
this"}. Another common way is the curved quote convention, which uses
-left and right single or double quotation marks @t{‘like this’} or
-@t{“like this”}. In text files, typewriter quotes are simple and
+left and right single or double quotation marks `@t{like this}' or
+``@t{like this}''@footnote{
+The curved single quote characters are U+2018 LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION
+MARK and U+2018 RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK; the curved double quotes
+are U+201C LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK and U+201D RIGHT DOUBLE
+QUOTATION MARK. On text terminals which cannot display these
+characters, the Info reader might show them as the typewriter ASCII
+quote characters.
+}. In text files, typewriter quotes are simple and
portable; curved quotes are less ambiguous and typically look nicer.
@vindex electric-quote-chars
Electric Quote mode makes it easier to type curved quotes. As you
-type characters it optionally converts @t{`} to @t{‘}, @t{'} to @t{’},
-@t{``} to @t{“}, and @t{''} to @t{”}. It's possible to change the
+type characters it optionally converts @t{`} to ‘, @t{'} to ',
+@t{``} to ``, and @t{''} to ''. It's possible to change the
default quotes listed above, by customizing the variable
@code{electric-quote-chars}, a list of four characters, where the
items correspond to the left single quote, the right single quote, the
left double quote and the right double quote, respectively, whose
-default value is @code{'(?‘ ?’ ?“ ?”)}.
+default value is @code{'(?@r{`} ?@r{'} ?@r{``} ?@r{''})}.
@vindex electric-quote-paragraph
@vindex electric-quote-comment
type @kbd{C-q `} or @kbd{C-q '} instead of @kbd{`} or @kbd{'}. To
insert a curved quote even when Electric Quote is disabled or
inactive, you can type @kbd{C-x 8 [} for @t{‘}, @kbd{C-x 8 ]} for
-@t{’}, @kbd{C-x 8 @{} for @t{“}, and @kbd{C-x 8 @}} for @t{”}.
+@t{’}, @kbd{C-x 8 @{} for ``, and @kbd{C-x 8 @}} for ''.
@xref{Inserting Text}. Note that the value of
@code{electric-quote-chars} does not affect these keybindings, they
are not keybindings of @code{electric-quote-mode} but bound in