Subject: Re: bug#25108: 26.0.50; info node shows octal characters instead of curvy quotes

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2016 20:45:10 +0200

> From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Eric Hanchrow <[email-masked]>,  [email-masked]
> 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.