GNU bug report logs - #16292
24.3.50; info docs now contain single straight quotes instead of `'

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Message #132 received at 16292 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu, 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: Sat, 04 Jan 2014 09:45:28 +0200

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,  16292 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,  grfz <at> gmx.de
> Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2014 00:18:15 -0500
> 
> Isn't there a way other than modifying the file to tell Texinfo that
> the encoding is utf-8?

No, not if you want makeinfo to put the 'coding' cookie in the file
local variables section of the Info file it produces.
@documentencoding is the way.

> I'd rather not try to be clever here.  E.g. your test will end up using
> ASCII in non-English locales, even though they're just as likely to
> properly handle those Unicode chars.  Just default to no.

I agree.  And using --disable-encoding is a simpler way of achieving
that, as it doesn't need any postprocessing.

> > 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.
> 
> Agreed.

If so, we should at least fix the handful of manuals that already use
"@documentencoding utf-8", or use non-ASCII characters without any
@documentencoding, thus producing Info files that might display
incorrectly in certain locales.

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