Re: character sets as they relate to “Raw” string literals for elisp

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2021 20:01:15 +0000
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, juri@linkov.net, db48x@db48x.net,
>   stefankangas@gmail.com, yuri.v.khan@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca
> From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
> 
> > And, of course, if you must have only ASCII characters in the Info
> > files themselves, you can always regenerate them from the sources,
> > without using the --enable-encoding switch.  It's so simple that it's
> > hardly worth another round of futile "discussions" that never go
> > anywhere.
> 
> That's not what I want.  I want UTF-8 characters, so that people's names,
> etc., can be displayed correctly.  I simply don't want the PUNCTUATION in
> texi files to get translated to Unicode characters not on my keyboard,
> and which can't be cleanly displayed on my Linux console.  makeinfo and
> friends don't have options for this.

But Emacs already automatically translates those punctuation
characters at display time in your case, so what exactly is the
problem you want to solve?