Subject: Re: bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 16:06:41 +0300

> Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 12:45:03 +0000
> Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked]
> From: Alan Mackenzie <[email-masked]>
> 
> > > It doesn't work at all well in my terminal (a Linux virtual tty).
> > > Whatever these characters are, they are displayed as inverse question
> > > marks.
> 
> > In Emacs or in the stand-alone Info reader?
> 
> In Emacs.

We can easily fix that, e.g. by using a display table in Info and
*Help* buffers.

> I haven't yet tried it in the stand-alone Info reader.

The next version of Texinfo's Info reader will use ASCII replacements
on text terminals that cannot display these (and other) characters.

Of course, the search issue still remains, you will have to use
"C-x 8 RET", unless we provide commands to insert these characters
directly.