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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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>, grfz <at> gmx.de, 16292 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#16292: 24.3.50; info docs now contain single straight quotes instead of `'
Date: Wed, 01 Jan 2014 23:19:37 -0500

> Of course, before this commit, we already had such a problem in
> several files, which started using UTF-8 encoding since the last
> March.  But that, too, was never discussed AFAIR, and its effect on
> @code, @samp, etc. markup, as well as on ``..'' quoted text, was never
> mentioned.  (These effects are barely documented in the Texinfo
> manual, so it was easy to miss the meaning of those changes.

I think it's not just a documentation error.  There's no good reason to
link the input document encoding to the kind of symbols used in the output.


        Stefan
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