From: Sebastian Urban <mrsebastianurban@gmail.com>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 41100@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#41100: emacs-27 7081c1d: Fix typos in the Emacs user manual
Date: Sun, 10 May 2020 11:34:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e058a6bc-56ab-6428-9752-b43aa8e8afba@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <816dcd95-9a30-f0da-247d-e841ae315baf@cs.ucla.edu>
> The preferred Unicode spelling these days is “Baháʼí” (with U+02BC
MODIFIED
> LETTER APOSTROPHE). However, although Texinfo can handle that
character and puts
> it into info files, the character doesn’t survive transliteration
to TeX (it
> gets lost). I don't know whether this is a bug in Texinfo or in
TeX, but anyway
> we need to work around it if we're going to use the correct spelling.
AND from patch:
> +@iftex
> +@c TeX mishandles ʼ (U+02BC MODIFIER LETTER APOSTROPHE), so
approximate
> +@c it with ', which TeX renders as a right single quotation mark.
> +@set Bahai Bahá'í
> +@end iftex
When I put this "modified letter apostrophe" alone in calendar.texi
and build PDF, in emacs.log the following line appear: "Unicode char
@u8:ʼ not defined for Texinfo", so perhaps it is Texinfo that
"mishandles" the apostrophe, not TeX.
S. U.
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[not found] ` <20200508112251.1183120B2F@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org>
2020-05-08 16:29 ` emacs-27 7081c1d: Fix typos in the Emacs user manual Glenn Morris
2020-05-08 17:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-09 21:29 ` bug#41100: " Paul Eggert
2020-05-10 9:34 ` Sebastian Urban [this message]
2020-05-10 9:51 ` Andreas Schwab
2020-05-10 10:14 ` Sebastian Urban
2020-05-10 9:58 ` Andreas Schwab
2020-05-10 14:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-10 16:07 ` Paul Eggert
2020-05-10 16:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-10 17:27 ` Sebastian Urban
2020-05-10 17:29 ` Paul Eggert
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