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bug#16292: 24.3.50; info docs now contain single straight quotes instead
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#16292: 24.3.50; info docs now contain single straight quotes instead of `' |
Date: |
Sat, 04 Jan 2014 09:38:26 +0200 |
> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>, 16292@debbugs.gnu.org, grfz@gmx.de
> Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2014 16:52:01 -0500
>
> My position is as follows:
> - I'd rather use Texinfo defaults, of course, to the extent that they
> work OK for Emacs.
> - We should feel free to use Unicode chars (in utf-8 encoding) in .texi files
> (and utf-8 should be the default encoding, so there's no need to
> specify it explicitly in the file).
> - Those Unicode chars should be preserved in the .info files (i.e. Info
> files should also use utf-8).
> - The chars introduced by "makeinfo" itself should stick to ASCII for
> now by default. I think we're pretty close to the point where ‘ and ’
> can be assumed to work "everywhere", but we're not quite there yet.
> But I'd hope that Debian builds would not follow that default and
> would tell make info to use things like ‘ and ’ since these chars
> should pretty much always work in a Debian system.
That's my position as well. I think using --disable-encoding in
Texinfo 5 and --enable-encoding in older versions will achieve
precisely that. It is also simple and doesn't require any
configure-time options. All we need is a simple test in the Makefile
of the version of makeinfo being used.
- bug#16292: 24.3.50; info docs now contain single straight quotes instead of `', (continued)
- bug#16292: 24.3.50; info docs now contain single straight quotes instead of `', Paul Eggert, 2014/01/04
- bug#16292: 24.3.50; info docs now contain single straight quotes instead of `', Eli Zaretskii, 2014/01/04
- bug#16292: 24.3.50; info docs now contain single straight quotes instead of `', Paul Eggert, 2014/01/04
- bug#16292: 24.3.50; info docs now contain single straight quotes instead of `', Eli Zaretskii, 2014/01/04
- bug#16292: 24.3.50; info docs now contain single straight quotes instead of `', Paul Eggert, 2014/01/04
- bug#16292: 24.3.50; info docs now contain single straight quotes instead of `', Eli Zaretskii, 2014/01/04
- bug#16292: 24.3.50; info docs now contain single straight quotes instead of `', Stefan Monnier, 2014/01/04
- bug#16292: 24.3.50; info docs now contain single straight quotes instead of `', Eli Zaretskii, 2014/01/04
- bug#16292: 24.3.50; info docs now contain single straight quotes instead of `',
Eli Zaretskii <=
bug#16292: 24.3.50; info docs now contain single straight quotes instead of `', Stefan Monnier, 2014/01/01