[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #48306] Single quote appearing as "â" in documentation on Windows

[anonymous]

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                 Summary: Single quote appearing as "â" in documentation on
Windows
                 Project: GNU Octave
            Submitted by: None
            Submitted on: Fri 24 Jun 2016 04:09:59 PM UTC
                Category: Documentation
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Other
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: 
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             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: 4.0.2
        Operating System: Microsoft Windows

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Details:

Hi there!

I've noticed that in Octave on Windows, in any section of the Documentation
tab, any occurrence of a word inside single quotes (e.g., ‘plot’) have the
quotes replaced by â characters (e.g., ‘plotâ).

Researching the problem, it seems that the documentation files are fine, but
Octave is either not reading or not displaying its contents correctly (perhaps
due to wrong encoding).

In the "Operator Index" section, Octave shows (among others) the following
line:


» ’ <2>.      (line  93)


... while Notepad and other text editors show the right content when opening
the file at C:\Octave\Octave-4.0.2\share\info\octave.info-9 :


* ' <2>:                                 Arithmetic Ops.      (line  93)


(Of course, another problem of this specific section is that the description
of the operators is not displayed in the Octave Documentation tab. Please see
the attachments for screenshot comparisons.)



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