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25.0.50; REGRESSION: bug report with text from Info has spurious escape chars

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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 21471 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu
Subject: bug#21471: 25.0.50;	bug report with text from Info has spurious escape chars
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2015 06:41:51 -0700 (PDT)

> > But Unicode chars were not used all over the place previously,
> > which makes it a regression of sorts, in observed behavior.
> > This will bite lots more users a lot more, even if the problem
> > was potentially present previously as well.
> >
> > It's a bad bug, interfering considerably with usability,
> > regardless of whether we want to call it a regression.
> 
> You can always copy/paste manually, replacing the text that Emacs put
> in the clipboard for you, if you care.
> 
> Or you can make the text an attachment.
> 
> And please recall that the instructions for writing the bug report
> explicitly asked for avoiding non-ASCII characters.

Excuse me?  That sounds like a complete cop-out, to me.

But if you're fine with pasted text from manuals not being
readable, who am I to say that this is a problem?

Telling users to avoid non-ASCII characters flies in the
face of spreading non-ASCII characters all over the manuals.

Do you honestly expect users to strip out all of the curly
quotes or replace them all with ASCII quotes, just to be
able to cite text in the manuals?

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