bug#16292: 24.3.50; info docs now contain single straight quotes instead of `'

[Paul Eggert]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2014 09:50:21 -0800
> > From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
> >
> > Defaulting to ASCII in all platforms would leave the original
> > bug unfixed by default on all installations, causing the
> > regression from `foo' to 'foo' that Drew Adams complained of.
>
> That's not an Emacs problem.  The Texinfo developers decided to make
> that change, and they followed the GNU Coding Standards.  Emacs needs
> to adapt, as the rest of the GNU project did.  If you think this is a
> step backwards

Defaulting to ASCII in all platforms would not be not a Texinfo problem,
as the ASCII transformation in the proposed patch is an Emacs-only hack.
No other package uses it, or is likely to.  Texinfo has an established
method to avoid the regression, namely to use UTF-8 quote symbols, and
Emacs could easily adopt this method, just as other GNU programs have.