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

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 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: Wed, 01 Jan 2014 20:50:16 -0800

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Thanks, but this should be the default, or at least should be used
> when producing the release tarball.

No, the point is that the release tarball contains UTF-8
info files, and that these are transformed to ASCII for installations
that prefer ASCII info files.  cp-ascii's UTF8-to-ASCII transformation
loses information; we can't ship ASCII info files in the tarball
and then transform those to the UTF-8 originals.

An ASCII default would have been better years ago, but these days
UTF-8 is the typical default encoding in GNUish distributions and
most users will be better off if UTF-8 is the default.
This bug report was last modified 11 years and 18 days ago.

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