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#31231
Symbol search broken in NEWS and ChangeLogs
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Reported by: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2018 20:24:02 UTC
Severity: normal
Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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Message #11 received at 31231 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
>> 2. In these files replace apostrophes by “LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK” and
>> “RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK” like are used in Info and Help buffers.
>
> Thanks, but I don't like any of these 2 alternatives. The first one
> will get in the way of spell-checking words with an apostrophe, the
> second one will make it harder to view the files on text terminals
> that don't support UTF-8.
But how these text terminals display Unicode quotes in Info manuals?
> Is this really such a bad problem that it requires us to tweak
> text-based modes? What happens if you try searching for the symbol as
> a simple string? do you get many false positives?
Yes, this is a real problem. Now I have a good habit of using
symbol search mode everywhere when searching for symbols.
But the search failure reminds that NEWS and ChangeLogs are still
problematic and I had to try again after switching to literal search.
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