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

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Gregor Zattler <grfz <at> gmx.de>

Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2013 22:10:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Found in version 24.3.50

Fixed in version 24.4

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #180 received at 16292 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
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 16:11:36 -0500

> I won't recommend that: the effect is only visible with Texinfo 5,
> which is still new.  Complaints might come too late for us to be able
> to fix them (after the release).

I think we should take the risk.  It will also give us a good idea of
whether avoiding Unicode quotes is worth the trouble
of --disable-encoding (or of a sed script to convert them back to
ASCII).


        Stefan
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