Subject: Re: bug#16292: 24.3.50; info docs now contain single straight quotes instead of `'

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2014 22:08:14 +0200

> Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2014 09:50:21 -0800
> From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
> CC: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>, [email-masked], [email-masked]
> 
> Defaulting to ASCII in all platforms would leave the original
> bug unfixed by default on all installations, causing the
> regression from `foo' to 'foo' that Drew Adams complained of.

That's not an Emacs problem.  The Texinfo developers decided to make
that change, and they followed the GNU Coding Standards.  Emacs needs
to adapt, as the rest of the GNU project did.  If you think this is a
step backwards, you need to talk to the Texinfo developers.