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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: 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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