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

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Message #45 received at 16292 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.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: Mon, 30 Dec 2013 22:08:45 +0200

> From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
> Cc: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>,  grfz <at> gmx.de,  16292 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2013 20:46:16 +0100
> 
> The info reader should really recode the info file into the locale's
> encoding on the fly (and info files should always be encoded in UTF-8).

You mean, the Emacs Info reader?  It already does that on a TTY,
using terminal-coding-system.  But the problem is that these Unicode
quotes cannot be encoded in most (all?) non-UTF encodings.

We could replace those characters via display tables.

But these solutions are only for the Emacs Info reader; the
stand-alone reader doesn't do anything like that, it simply dumps the
bytes to the screen, assuming the text is in the current locale's
encoding.

> It doesn't make sense any more to use Latin-1.

We originally produced ASCII emulations of the non-ASCII characters
used by the names of contributors in ack.texi etc., but then decided
to show them more respect by using Latin.  That's how it all started.

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