Re: Encoding of documentation for GUI browser (Windows)

[Rik]

On 05/06/2016 10:42 AM, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> Rik,
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> Check the origin of that apostrophe in the source code.  Even the linux
> variant doesn't seem standard.  That apostrophe isn't something on the
> conventional keyboard.  I have ` and '.  Ah, wait.  That apostrophe is
> coming from Tex's encoding, isn't it?  Try a different Tex encoding
> sequence to get the more conventional apostrophe.
>
Shouldn't Texinfo have put in a correct character?  Or is it the fact that
the documentation was generated in a tarball originally destined for Linux,
and then not updated during the MXE build because the tarball goes out of
its way to avoid recreating the documentation?

--Rik

> Dan
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> On 05/06/2016 12:30 PM, Rik wrote:
>> 5/6/16
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>> I'm using my own MXE compiled binary on a Windows XP VM.  When I look in
>> the documentation, everywhere the @code Texinfo element is used I get weird
>> characters.
>>
>> -- Windows --
>> The ‘plot’ function allows you to create simple x-y plots with linear
>> axes.  For example,
>> -- End Windows --
>>
>> On Linux, the same text in the GUI browser is
>>
>> -- Linux --
>> The ‘plot’ function allows you to create simple x-y plots with linear
>> axes.  For example,
>> -- End Linux --
>>
>> Anybody know how to fix that?  It sure seems like a character encoding
>> issue.  Also, is anybody else seeing that or is it just me?
>>
>> --Rik
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