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From: | Eric Hanchrow |
Subject: | bug#25108: 26.0.50; info node shows octal characters instead of curvy quotes |
Date: | Mon, 05 Dec 2016 05:20:20 +0000 |
> From: Eric Hanchrow <eric.hanchrow@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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