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24.3.50; info docs now contain single straight quotes instead of `'

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>, 
 Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: grfz <at> gmx.de, 16292 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#16292: 24.3.50; info docs now contain single straight quotes
 instead of `'
Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2014 16:07:32 -0800

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Stefan Monnier wrote:

>    I think we're pretty close to the point where ‘ and ’
>    can be assumed to work "everywhere", but we're not quite there yet.
>    But I'd hope that Debian builds would not follow that default and
>    would tell make info to use things like ‘ and ’ since these chars
>    should pretty much always work in a Debian system.

OK, attached is a patch to implement that suggestion, with the proviso
that the default is to use curly quotes on Debian-like systems where
UTF-8 support seems ubiquitous, and to use ASCII quotes elsewhere.
This should simplify configuration on Debianish systems. The 'locale'
command is used to check for UTF-8 support in English.

This feels like a new feature, so I'm somewhat inclined to leave this
stuff alone in the trunk until after the feature freeze is over.

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