branch master updated: * doc/texinfo.texi (Inserting Quotation Marks): Make discussion generic across output formats. Account for fact that Info output is not pure ASCII any more so `` and '' do not necessarily become ".

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     new 7b319028f2 * doc/texinfo.texi (Inserting Quotation Marks): Make 
discussion generic across output formats.  Account for fact that Info output is 
not pure ASCII any more so `` and '' do not necessarily become ".
7b319028f2 is described below

commit 7b319028f2969d1202c973388b133f3db8239d48
Author: Gavin Smith <gavinsmith0123@gmail.com>
AuthorDate: Mon Oct 17 22:49:28 2022 +0100

    * doc/texinfo.texi (Inserting Quotation Marks):
    Make discussion generic across output formats.  Account
    for fact that Info output is not pure ASCII any more
    so `` and '' do not necessarily become ".
---
 ChangeLog        | 7 +++++++
 doc/texinfo.texi | 9 ++-------
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index f9a744a41f..038d80aefa 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2022-10-17  Gavin Smith  <gavinsmith0123@gmail.com>
+
+       * doc/texinfo.texi (Inserting Quotation Marks):
+       Make discussion generic across output formats.  Account
+       for fact that Info output is not pure ASCII any more
+       so `` and '' do not necessarily become ".
+
 2022-10-17  Gavin Smith  <gavinsmith0123@gmail.com>
 
        * doc/texinfo.texi (Inserting a Backslash): Revert
diff --git a/doc/texinfo.texi b/doc/texinfo.texi
index 889467e9cf..749a0449a4 100644
--- a/doc/texinfo.texi
+++ b/doc/texinfo.texi
@@ -9852,14 +9852,9 @@ commonly used in languages other than English.
 
 @cindex Quotation characters (`'), in source
 Use doubled single-quote characters to begin and end quotations:
-@w{@t{`@w{}`@dots{}'@w{}'}}.  In printed output, two single quotes
+@w{@t{`@w{}`@dots{}'@w{}'}}.  Two single quotes
 are converted to left- and right-hand doubled quotation marks,
-@c this comes out as "like this" in Info, which is just confusing.
-@iftex
-``like this'',
-@end iftex
-in other formats doubled single-quote characters may be converted to ASCII
-double quotes: @w{@t{`@w{}`@dots{}'@w{}'}} becomes @w{@t{"@dots{}"}}.
+``like this''.
 
 You may occasionally need to produce two consecutive single quotes;
 for example, in documenting a computer language such as Maxima where