Revert "Extend ‘format’ to translate curved quotes"

This reverts commit 244c801689d2f7a80480d83cd7d092d4762ebe08.

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diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
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@@ -910,19 +910,6 @@ denied" instead of "permission denied".  The old behavior was problematic
 in languages like German where downcasing rules depend on grammar.
 
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-** ‘format’ now replaces curved single quotes.
-That is, it replaces strings' curved single quotes (also known as
-curly quotes) as per the value of the new custom variable
-‘text-quoting-style’: ‘curve’ means replace curved quotes with
-themselves ‘like this’, ‘straight’ means use straight apostrophes
-'like this', ‘grave’ means use grave accent and apostrophe `like
-this', and nil (default) means use curved quotes if displayable and
-grave accent and apostrophe otherwise.  Because it now may be used
-in many contexts where it's a no-op, ‘format’ is no longer required to
-create a string, and may return its first argument if the argument
-already has the correct value.
-
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 ** New ‘format’ flag ‘q’
 The new ‘q’ flag causes ‘format’ to quote the output representation as
 per the value of ‘text quoting-style’.  E.g., (format "%qs failed"