From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Non-ASCII characters in Info files produced by Texinfo 7.1
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2023 13:11:46 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83cyx1hevx.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZTo0yRgnFQR8sIl7@ACM> (message from Alan Mackenzie on Thu, 26 Oct 2023 09:43:37 +0000)
> Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2023 09:43:37 +0000
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
>
> > Are there any other opinions? For now, the opinions are 5:3 in favor
> > of keeping the pre-7.1 behavior of producing Unicode characters, i.e.
> > in favor of adding "-c ASCII_DASHES_AND_QUOTES=0" to our makeinfo
> > options. If no other opinions will emerge within a few days that
> > change this picture, I will add that switch to our Makefile's.
>
> Please don't do that. Please instead make it a configurable option,
> something like --with-info-unicode-punctuation.
When there's a 2:1 ratio in favor of the change, making a
configure-time option for it sounds like a lot of work without
justification.
> > Note that users can always countermand this by saying
>
> > make INFO_OPTS='--no-split -c ASCII_DASHES_AND_QUOTES=1'
>
> > when they build Emacs.
>
> "Always" is the word. This means always editing the Makefile each time
> it gets updated by a ./configure, or always having a constant
> uncomfortable diff between the repository and one's working copy of
> Makefile.in.
No, I meant type the above from the command line. No need to edit
anything.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-10-26 10:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-10-23 19:12 Non-ASCII characters in Info files produced by Texinfo 7.1 Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-23 19:52 ` Stefan Kangas
2023-10-24 5:02 ` Visuwesh
2023-10-24 8:52 ` Stefan Kangas
2023-10-24 9:07 ` Visuwesh
2023-10-24 11:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-25 6:45 ` Juri Linkov
2023-10-25 12:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-25 12:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-25 13:12 ` Gerd Möllmann
2023-10-23 20:49 ` Alan Mackenzie
2023-10-24 4:31 ` tomas
2023-10-24 5:28 ` Christopher Dimech
2023-10-24 7:42 ` tomas
2023-10-24 6:54 ` Yuri Khan
2023-10-24 11:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-24 11:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-24 8:02 ` Manuel Giraud via Emacs development discussions.
2023-10-24 8:21 ` Ulrich Mueller
2023-10-24 9:39 ` Manuel Giraud via Emacs development discussions.
2023-10-24 10:59 ` Po Lu
2023-10-24 12:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-24 11:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-24 11:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-24 12:28 ` Manuel Giraud via Emacs development discussions.
2023-10-24 12:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-24 13:43 ` Manuel Giraud via Emacs development discussions.
2023-10-26 8:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-26 9:43 ` Alan Mackenzie
2023-10-26 10:11 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2023-10-26 10:55 ` Alan Mackenzie
2023-10-26 11:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-12-09 4:01 ` Richard Stallman
2023-10-26 9:54 ` Ulrich Mueller
2023-10-26 10:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-26 10:31 ` Gregory Heytings
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