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Subject: Re: terminal escapes in Info files?
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> From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
> Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 22:08:11 +0100
> 
> Btw., the help text is misleading, info without -R does not actually
> remove the escapes, it displays them as replacement characters instead.

Well, yes and no: it does remove some control characters such as \b
and \f.  The same code is used to convert ^c into two ASCII
characters, so it's kinda hard to write a short but accurate help
message.