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

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 02 May 2014 23:56:46 -0700

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> @documentencoding, I think.  It determines whether makeinfo 5.x will
> use '...' or ‘...’.

Yes, that might explain things.  If a toplevel .texi file does not 
contain @documentencoding, makeinfo 5 will quote 'like this'.  Emacs 
doesn't do this, though.