From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 16292@debbugs.gnu.org, grfz@gmx.de
Subject: bug#16292: 24.3.50; info docs now contain single straight quotes instead of `'
Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2014 22:18:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83mwjcx1i9.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52C6F2C5.10505@cs.ucla.edu>
> Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2014 09:26:29 -0800
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
> CC: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, 16292@debbugs.gnu.org, grfz@gmx.de
>
> > The systematic principle I propose is to convert everything except
> > letters, i.e. only punctuation and special characters.
>
> From the viewpoint of the unibyte reader that's just weird.
> Why should "ß" be converted to mojibake (destroying the point
> of a code example) while "•" is converted to "*"
> (a mere formatting nicety)?
Because the former are rare in an otherwise English manual, and are
mostly in people's names, not in the stuff the manual tries to
describe. By contrast, the latter are many and directly affect the
readability of the manual.
> > It would be a priority if we decide to make that cp-ascii'd output the
> > default.
>
> That's not likely. The general consensus seems to be that
> Emacs should just use whatever Texinfo produces by default.
We didn't hear from Stefan yet. This isn't a democracy.
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2013-12-29 22:08 bug#16292: 24.3.50; info docs now contain single straight quotes instead of `' Gregor Zattler
2013-12-30 1:14 ` Glenn Morris
2013-12-30 3:07 ` Drew Adams
2013-12-30 3:26 ` Glenn Morris
2013-12-30 3:23 ` Paul Eggert
2013-12-30 4:10 ` Drew Adams
2013-12-30 17:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-12-30 17:33 ` Drew Adams
2013-12-30 18:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-12-30 19:07 ` Paul Eggert
2013-12-30 19:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-12-30 19:46 ` Andreas Schwab
2013-12-30 20:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-12-30 20:35 ` Andreas Schwab
2013-12-31 8:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-12-31 5:51 ` Paul Eggert
2013-12-31 5:58 ` Paul Eggert
2013-12-31 8:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-02 2:05 ` Paul Eggert
2014-01-02 3:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-02 4:50 ` Paul Eggert
2014-01-02 15:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-02 19:28 ` Paul Eggert
2014-01-02 20:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-03 0:44 ` Paul Eggert
2014-01-03 8:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-03 17:26 ` Paul Eggert
2014-01-03 20:18 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2014-01-03 20:48 ` Paul Eggert
2014-01-03 21:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-03 21:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-04 0:07 ` Paul Eggert
2014-01-04 0:40 ` Drew Adams
2014-01-04 0:49 ` Paul Eggert
2014-01-04 7:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-04 5:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-04 7:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2014-01-04 18:01 ` Paul Eggert
2014-01-04 20:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2014-01-04 20:24 ` Drew Adams
2014-01-04 20:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-04 20:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-04 20:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2014-01-04 20:53 ` Paul Eggert
2014-01-04 21:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-04 23:29 ` Paul Eggert
2014-01-05 3:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-05 5:23 ` Paul Eggert
2014-01-05 16:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-04 21:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-05 3:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2014-01-05 23:05 ` Paul Eggert
2014-01-06 3:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2014-01-06 4:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-06 5:31 ` Paul Eggert
2014-01-06 16:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-07 1:15 ` Paul Eggert
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2014-05-02 18:11 ` Drew Adams
2014-05-02 18:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-02 19:07 ` Paul Eggert
2014-05-02 19:19 ` Glenn Morris
2014-05-02 19:28 ` Paul Eggert
2014-05-02 21:10 ` Glenn Morris
2014-05-02 21:25 ` Paul Eggert
2014-05-02 19:33 ` Drew Adams
2014-05-02 20:36 ` Paul Eggert
2014-05-02 20:53 ` Drew Adams
2014-05-02 21:14 ` Paul Eggert
2014-05-02 21:28 ` Drew Adams
2014-05-02 21:47 ` Paul Eggert
2014-05-03 6:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-03 6:56 ` Paul Eggert
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2014-05-02 19:20 ` Drew Adams
2014-05-03 9:27 ` Juri Linkov
2014-05-03 13:50 ` Drew Adams
2014-05-03 15:51 ` Drew Adams
2014-05-07 20:21 ` Juri Linkov
2014-05-07 20:41 ` Drew Adams
2014-01-04 17:50 ` Paul Eggert
2014-01-04 20:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-04 20:53 ` Paul Eggert
2014-01-04 21:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-04 23:35 ` Paul Eggert
2014-01-05 3:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-04 20:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-04 7:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-04 7:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-02 4:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-02 4:48 ` Paul Eggert
2014-01-02 15:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
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