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

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From: Tu Do <tuhdo1710 <at> gmail.com>
To: 16292 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs trunk does not use `...' for quoting names anymore
Date: Sat, 3 May 2014 04:11:45 +0700

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Please note that when I mean two config.log files use */usr/bin/makeinfo*,
I really mean the logs contains the path to the makeinfo I'm using.


On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 4:08 AM, Tu Do <tuhdo1710 <at> gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi I am the user in discussion,
>
> The output is in the attached file. Probably the Emacs pretest got
> pre-compiled info documents?
>
> Some relevant information:
>
> - Output from *makeinfo --version*:
>
> makeinfo (GNU texinfo) 5.2
>>
>> Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>> License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <
>> http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
>> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
>> There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
>>
>
> - Which *makeinfo* I am using:
>
> /usr/bin/makeinfo
>>
>
> - The other two config.log files for each Emacs version, both use
> */usr/bin/makeinfo*
>
> I also installed texinfo 5.1 and the result is the same.
>
> OS:
>
> No LSB modules are available.
>> Distributor ID:    Ubuntu
>> Description:    Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
>> Release:    14.04
>> Codename:    trusty
>>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tu.
>
>
> On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 3:45 AM, Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi again,
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks for that info - I've passed it along to the bug thread.
>>
>>
>>
>> From the bug thread there is this request from you. Could you check this?
>>
>>
>>
>> > Run 'makeinfo' on the attached file t.texi and look at the quoting in
>>
>> > the output file t.info. It should use ASCII accent-grave and apostrophe
>>
>> > with old texinfo, and Unicode curly single quotes with new texinfo.
>>
>> > Similarly, the double quotes should use ASCII undirected double-quote
>>
>> > (both times) with old texinfo, and Unicode curly double quotes with new
>>
>> > texinfo.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thx - Drew
>>
>>
>>
>> I built from source with makinfo 5.2. However, makeinfo 5.2 works fine
>> for Emacs pretest (emacs 24.3.90), but not for Emacs trunk(24.4.50):
>>
>> bzr branch bzr://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/emacs/
>>
>> *trunk*
>>
>> Here are the steps to build:
>>
>> - ./configure --with-x-toolkit=gtk
>>
>> - make
>>
>> - sudo make install
>>
>
>

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