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>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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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.
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