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2 undefined references and missing character (Emacs manual, PDF)

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From: Sebastian Urban <mrsebastianurban <at> gmail.com>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>, 41100 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#41100: emacs-27 7081c1d: Fix typos in the Emacs user manual
Date: Sun, 10 May 2020 11:34:39 +0200

> The preferred Unicode spelling these days is “Baháʼí” (with U+02BC 
MODIFIED
> LETTER APOSTROPHE). However, although Texinfo can handle that 
character and puts
> it into info files, the character doesn’t survive transliteration 
to TeX (it
> gets lost). I don't know whether this is a bug in Texinfo or in 
TeX, but anyway
> we need to work around it if we're going to use the correct spelling.

AND from patch:
> +@iftex
> +@c TeX mishandles ʼ (U+02BC MODIFIER LETTER APOSTROPHE), so 
approximate
> +@c it with ', which TeX renders as a right single quotation mark.
> +@set Bahai Bahá'í
> +@end iftex

When I put this "modified letter apostrophe" alone in calendar.texi
and build PDF, in emacs.log the following line appear: "Unicode char
@u8:ʼ not defined for Texinfo", so perhaps it is Texinfo that
"mishandles" the apostrophe, not TeX.


S. U.

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