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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: eric.hanchrow@gmail.com, 25108@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#25108: 26.0.50; info node shows octal characters instead of curvy quotes
Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2016 20:45:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <834m2ei7k9.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <wd8trqmi23.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (message from Glenn Morris on Thu, 08 Dec 2016 12:44:52 -0500)

> From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
> Cc: Eric Hanchrow <eric.hanchrow@gmail.com>,  25108@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.





  reply	other threads:[~2016-12-08 18:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-04 17:40 bug#25108: 26.0.50; info node shows octal characters instead of curvy quotes Eric Hanchrow
2016-12-05  3:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-05  5:20   ` Eric Hanchrow
2016-12-05 15:51     ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-06  1:57       ` Eric Hanchrow
2016-12-06 15:27         ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-07  3:31           ` Eric Hanchrow
2016-12-07 16:01             ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]               ` <CAHZoxq-Cb3nak7Ku0xp2M9YeDwO4cW8XWR8DghgnKqEDAnfqJg@mail.gmail.com>
2016-12-08 15:42                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-08 17:44                   ` Glenn Morris
2016-12-08 18:45                     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-12-08 18:49                       ` Glenn Morris
2016-12-09  3:16                         ` Eric Hanchrow
2016-12-09  8:18                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-11  2:25                         ` Glenn Morris

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