From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Eric Hanchrow <eric.hanchrow@gmail.com>
Cc: 25108@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#25108: 26.0.50; info node shows octal characters instead of curvy quotes
Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2016 05:39:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <837f7fkpsc.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHZoxq82LS6BpjyhdPwNYh0cq7raRWdmXdFQgB+JAoy=14WxLQ@mail.gmail.com> (message from Eric Hanchrow on Sun, 04 Dec 2016 17:40:28 +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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-12-05 3:39 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 [this message]
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
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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