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Re: Non-ASCII characters in Info files produced by Texinfo 7.1
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Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Non-ASCII characters in Info files produced by Texinfo 7.1 |
Date: |
Thu, 26 Oct 2023 13:11:46 +0300 |
> 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.
Re: Non-ASCII characters in Info files produced by Texinfo 7.1, Eli Zaretskii, 2023/10/24
- Re: Non-ASCII characters in Info files produced by Texinfo 7.1, Manuel Giraud, 2023/10/24
- Re: Non-ASCII characters in Info files produced by Texinfo 7.1, Eli Zaretskii, 2023/10/24
- Re: Non-ASCII characters in Info files produced by Texinfo 7.1, Manuel Giraud, 2023/10/24
- Re: Non-ASCII characters in Info files produced by Texinfo 7.1, Eli Zaretskii, 2023/10/26
- Re: Non-ASCII characters in Info files produced by Texinfo 7.1, Alan Mackenzie, 2023/10/26
- Re: Non-ASCII characters in Info files produced by Texinfo 7.1,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: Non-ASCII characters in Info files produced by Texinfo 7.1, Alan Mackenzie, 2023/10/26
- Re: Non-ASCII characters in Info files produced by Texinfo 7.1, Eli Zaretskii, 2023/10/26
Re: Non-ASCII characters in Info files produced by Texinfo 7.1, Ulrich Mueller, 2023/10/26
Re: Non-ASCII characters in Info files produced by Texinfo 7.1, Eli Zaretskii, 2023/10/26
Re: Non-ASCII characters in Info files produced by Texinfo 7.1, Gregory Heytings, 2023/10/26