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26.0.50; info node shows octal characters instead of curvy quotes

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From: Eric Hanchrow <eric.hanchrow <at> gmail.com>
To: "bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
Subject: 26.0.50; info node shows octal characters instead of curvy quotes
Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2016 17:40:28 +0000

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I built emacs from git (commit a486fabb41cdbaa5813c2687fd4008945297d71d) via

  git clean -dxf
  ./autogen.sh
  ./configure
  make all install

I then invoked it like this

  open --new
~/git-repositories/3rd-party/emacs-master/nextstep/Emacs-master.app/ --args
-Q

I then invoked info on the file elisp.info, something like this (I'm not
sure exactly what I typed, but it wound up leaving this in command-history)

  (info "~/git-repositories/3rd-party/emacs-master/info/elisp.info" nil)

I then typed g Keys SPC in SPC Documentation RET

I then noticed that the description of text-quoting-style looked like
this:

     -- Variable: text-quoting-style
         The value of this variable is a symbol that specifies the style
         Emacs should use for single quotes in the wording of help and
         messages.  If the variable's value is `curve', the style is
         \342\200\230like this\342\200\231 with curved single quotes.  If
the value is
         `straight', the style is 'like this' with straight apostrophes.

It's supposed to have actual curly quotes instead of octal escape sequences.


In GNU Emacs 26.0.50.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin16.1.0, NS appkit-1504.60
Version 10.12.1 (Build 16B2555))
 of 2016-12-03 built on Eric-Hanchrows-MacBook-Pro.local
Repository revision: a486fabb41cdbaa5813c2687fd4008945297d71d
Windowing system distributor 'Apple', version 10.3.1504
Recent messages:
For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.
Composing main Info directory...done
Quit
Making completion list...
Type C-x 1 to delete the help window.
C-x | is undefined

Configured features:
NOTIFY ACL GNUTLS LIBXML2 ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS NS

Important settings:
  value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix

Major mode: Info

Minor modes in effect:
  tooltip-mode: t
  global-eldoc-mode: t
  electric-indent-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
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Message #8 received at 25108 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Eric Hanchrow <eric.hanchrow <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 25108 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#25108: 26.0.50;
 info node shows octal characters instead of curvy quotes
Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2016 05:39:31 +0200

> From: Eric Hanchrow <eric.hanchrow <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2016 17:40:28 +0000
> 
> I built emacs from git (commit a486fabb41cdbaa5813c2687fd4008945297d71d) via
> 
> git clean -dxf
> ./autogen.sh
> ./configure
> make all install
> 
> I then invoked it like this
> 
> open --new ~/git-repositories/3rd-party/emacs-master/nextstep/Emacs-master.app/ --args -Q
> 
> I then invoked info on the file elisp.info, something like this (I'm not
> sure exactly what I typed, but it wound up leaving this in command-history)
> 
> (info "~/git-repositories/3rd-party/emacs-master/info/elisp.info" nil)
> 
> I then typed g Keys SPC in SPC Documentation RET
> 
> I then noticed that the description of text-quoting-style looked like
> this:
> 
> -- Variable: text-quoting-style
> The value of this variable is a symbol that specifies the style
> Emacs should use for single quotes in the wording of help and
> messages. If the variable's value is `curve', the style is
> \342\200\230like this\342\200\231 with curved single quotes. If the value is
> `straight', the style is 'like this' with straight apostrophes.

According to the mode line, what is buffer-file-coding-system of the
buffer showing this?  It should be UTF-8.

Message #11 received at 25108 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eric Hanchrow <eric.hanchrow <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 25108 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#25108: 26.0.50; info node shows octal characters instead of
 curvy quotes
Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2016 05:20:20 +0000

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It read t:%%-; clicking the mouse says it's "t -- raw-text-unix".

On Sun, Dec 4, 2016 at 7:39 PM Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:

> > From: Eric Hanchrow <eric.hanchrow <at> gmail.com>
> > Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2016 17:40:28 +0000
> >
> > I built emacs from git (commit a486fabb41cdbaa5813c2687fd4008945297d71d)
> via
> >
> > git clean -dxf
> > ./autogen.sh
> > ./configure
> > make all install
> >
> > I then invoked it like this
> >
> > open --new
> ~/git-repositories/3rd-party/emacs-master/nextstep/Emacs-master.app/ --args
> -Q
> >
> > I then invoked info on the file elisp.info, something like this (I'm not
> > sure exactly what I typed, but it wound up leaving this in
> command-history)
> >
> > (info "~/git-repositories/3rd-party/emacs-master/info/elisp.info" nil)
> >
> > I then typed g Keys SPC in SPC Documentation RET
> >
> > I then noticed that the description of text-quoting-style looked like
> > this:
> >
> > -- Variable: text-quoting-style
> > The value of this variable is a symbol that specifies the style
> > Emacs should use for single quotes in the wording of help and
> > messages. If the variable's value is `curve', the style is
> > \342\200\230like this\342\200\231 with curved single quotes. If the
> value is
> > `straight', the style is 'like this' with straight apostrophes.
>
> According to the mode line, what is buffer-file-coding-system of the
> buffer showing this?  It should be UTF-8.
>

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Message #14 received at 25108 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Eric Hanchrow <eric.hanchrow <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 25108 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#25108: 26.0.50; info node shows octal characters instead of
 curvy quotes
Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2016 17:51:41 +0200

> From: Eric Hanchrow <eric.hanchrow <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2016 05:20:20 +0000
> Cc: 25108 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> It read t:%%-; clicking the mouse says it's "t -- raw-text-unix".

That's a clear sign of a problem.

Does the elisp.info file has a Local Variables section at its end
which sets the file's encoding to be UTF-8?

Message #17 received at 25108 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eric Hanchrow <eric.hanchrow <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 25108 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#25108: 26.0.50; info node shows octal characters instead of
 curvy quotes
Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2016 01:57:16 +0000

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Yes, it does.

On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 7:51 AM Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:

> > From: Eric Hanchrow <eric.hanchrow <at> gmail.com>
> > Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2016 05:20:20 +0000
> > Cc: 25108 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> >
> > It read t:%%-; clicking the mouse says it's "t -- raw-text-unix".
>
> That's a clear sign of a problem.
>
> Does the elisp.info file has a Local Variables section at its end
> which sets the file's encoding to be UTF-8?
>

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Message #20 received at 25108 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Eric Hanchrow <eric.hanchrow <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 25108 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#25108: 26.0.50; info node shows octal characters instead of
 curvy quotes
Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2016 17:27:15 +0200

> From: Eric Hanchrow <eric.hanchrow <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2016 01:57:16 +0000
> Cc: 25108 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> Yes, it does. 

Can you show the file-local variables section in that file?

Message #23 received at 25108 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eric Hanchrow <eric.hanchrow <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 25108 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#25108: 26.0.50; info node shows octal characters instead of
 curvy quotes
Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2016 03:31:55 +0000

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Local Variables:
coding: UTF-8
End:


On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 7:27 AM Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:

> > From: Eric Hanchrow <eric.hanchrow <at> gmail.com>
> > Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2016 01:57:16 +0000
> > Cc: 25108 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> >
> > Yes, it does.
>
> Can you show the file-local variables section in that file?
>

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Message #26 received at 25108 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Eric Hanchrow <eric.hanchrow <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 25108 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#25108: 26.0.50; info node shows octal characters instead of
 curvy quotes
Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2016 18:01:18 +0200

> From: Eric Hanchrow <eric.hanchrow <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2016 03:31:55 +0000
> Cc: 25108 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> coding: UTF-8
> End:

Does it help to lower-case "UTF-8"?

If it does, please tell what version of makeinfo was used to produced
this file (you should find that information at the beginning of the
file).

Message #29 received at 25108 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Eric Hanchrow <eric.hanchrow <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 25108 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#25108: 26.0.50; info node shows octal characters instead of
 curvy quotes
Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2016 17:42:57 +0200

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> From: Eric Hanchrow <eric.hanchrow <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2016 03:07:57 +0000
> 
>  > coding: UTF-8
>  > End:
> 
>  Does it help to lower-case "UTF-8"?
> 
> Nope. To my surprise, however, it _does_ work if I delete the large "Tag table" paragraph, or if I move the
> "Local Variables" section -after- the "Tag Table" section.

It should have been after the Tag Table in the first place.  It should
be at the very end of the file (within 3KB from its end, to be exact).

>  If it does, please tell what version of makeinfo was used to produced
>  this file (you should find that information at the beginning of the
>  file).
> 
> makeinfo version 4.8 

This is really old; the current version is 6.3.  Texinfo 4.8 was the
first one that supported @documentencoding, so I guess it had some
bugs in that area.  I suggest to upgrade.

Any reason not to close this bug report, now that we know it wasn't an
Emacs problem?

Thanks.

Message #32 received at 25108 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Eric Hanchrow <eric.hanchrow <at> gmail.com>, 25108 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#25108: 26.0.50;
 info node shows octal characters instead of curvy quotes
Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2016 12:44:52 -0500

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> makeinfo version 4.8 
>
> This is really old; the current version is 6.3.  Texinfo 4.8 was the
> first one that supported @documentencoding, so I guess it had some
> bugs in that area.

Emacs's configure currently accepts makeinfo >= 4.7.
It sounds like this should be increased.
Certainly it's not clear how 4.7 could work, based on what you say about
documentencoding.

Message #35 received at 25108 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: eric.hanchrow <at> gmail.com, 25108 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#25108: 26.0.50;
 info node shows octal characters instead of curvy quotes
Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2016 20:45:10 +0200

> From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
> Cc: Eric Hanchrow <eric.hanchrow <at> gmail.com>,  25108 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2016 12:44:52 -0500
> 
> Emacs's configure currently accepts makeinfo >= 4.7.
> It sounds like this should be increased.

Yes, I think so.  I'm not sure where to bump it, though.  4.13,
perhaps, to accommodate those who don't want to switch to the slower
Perl-based releases?

> Certainly it's not clear how 4.7 could work, based on what you say about
> documentencoding.

Indeed, since we switched to UTF-8 in many manuals, 4.7 is probably no
longer appropriate.

Thanks.

Message #38 received at 25108 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: eric.hanchrow <at> gmail.com, 25108 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#25108: 26.0.50;
 info node shows octal characters instead of curvy quotes
Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2016 13:49:40 -0500

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> 4.13, perhaps, to accommodate those who don't want to switch to the
> slower Perl-based releases?

That would be my preference.

Message #41 received at 25108 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eric Hanchrow <eric.hanchrow <at> gmail.com>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 25108 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#25108: 26.0.50; info node shows octal characters instead of
 curvy quotes
Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2016 03:16:14 +0000

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For what it's worth, I tried a current version of makeinfo (version 6.3)
and it was so slow that I killed it before it finished; I thought something
was wrong with it.

On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 10:49 AM Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org> wrote:

> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> > 4.13, perhaps, to accommodate those who don't want to switch to the
> > slower Perl-based releases?
>
> That would be my preference.
>

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Message #44 received at 25108 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Eric Hanchrow <eric.hanchrow <at> gmail.com>
Cc: rgm <at> gnu.org, 25108 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#25108: 26.0.50; info node shows octal characters instead of
 curvy quotes
Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2016 10:18:25 +0200

> From: Eric Hanchrow <eric.hanchrow <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2016 03:16:14 +0000
> Cc: 25108 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> For what it's worth, I tried a current version of makeinfo (version 6.3) and it was so slow that I killed it before it
> finished; I thought something was wrong with it.

It's slow (18 times slower, to be precise) because makeinfo was
reimplemented in Perl.  You can install Texinfo 4.13, which was the
last version with a C implementation, if you are annoyed by the
slowness.

Message #49 received at 25108-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: 25108-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#25108: 26.0.50;
 info node shows octal characters instead of curvy quotes
Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2016 21:25:13 -0500

Version: 25.2

In 5f7d906 I bumped the makeinfo requirement to 4.13.

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