Re: Non-ASCII characters in Info files produced by Texinfo 7.1

[Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> Texinfo 7.1, released a few days ago, changed the behavior wrt
> characters produced from quotes, apostrophes and en- and em-dashes: by
> default, it now produces the ASCII equivalents.  So, for example, "--"
> in the Texinfo source remains "--" in the produced Info file, where
> previous versions would produce a real en-dash '–'.

> To revert to previous behavior, we will need to pass an optional
> argument to the makeinfo command in our Makefile's.  But before I make
> this change, I would like to know if people here want the new behavior
> or the old one.

I think using "--" instead of "–" would be a step back typographically,
so whichever way we go, I think we should keep that.

IOW, if we want to go with the new behavior (fine by me), we should
s/--/–/ in doc/**/*texi.

> The main reason for this change is that it makes it easier to grep the
> Info files.

BTW, we could make the Emacs Info mode search for – when the user enters
--, for ‘ when the user enters `, and so on.  I think that would be a
useful feature.