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From: | Paul Eggert |
Subject: | bug#16292: 24.3.50; info docs now contain single straight quotes instead of `' |
Date: | Wed, 01 Jan 2014 20:50:16 -0800 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 |
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
Thanks, but this should be the default, or at least should be used when producing the release tarball.
No, the point is that the release tarball contains UTF-8 info files, and that these are transformed to ASCII for installations that prefer ASCII info files. cp-ascii's UTF8-to-ASCII transformation loses information; we can't ship ASCII info files in the tarball and then transform those to the UTF-8 originals. An ASCII default would have been better years ago, but these days UTF-8 is the typical default encoding in GNUish distributions and most users will be better off if UTF-8 is the default.
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