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

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Message #159 received at 16292 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
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 22:42:47 +0200

> Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2014 12:24:05 -0800 (PST)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
> Cc: 16292 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, grfz <at> gmx.de
> 
> > > Better would be to leave the files alone, and build the next
> > > Emacs tarball with Texinfo 4.
> > 
> > I don't mind to use Texinfo 4, if there are no objections.  It
> > would solve the problem that matters to me.
> 
> But not the problem that matters to the OP and other users in a
> similar situation.

Yes, that too: Texinfo 4 still uses `..' for quoting.

> The OP uses Debian and emacs-snapshot.  From the original report
> (to me, but same OP):

Again, this isn't an Emacs problem.  It is wrong to expect Emacs to
fix problems caused by decisions of other packages.  However, patches
are welcome to fix that separately by using, e.g., display tables.

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