GNU bug report logs - #25108
26.0.50; info node shows octal characters instead of curvy quotes

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Eric Hanchrow <eric.hanchrow <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2016 17:41:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 26.0.50

Fixed in version 25.2

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

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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: 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.
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