[bug#59989] [PATCH] tests: Fix txinfo-include test for texinfo 7.x
Jacob Bachmeyer <[email protected]>
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Karl Berry wrote:
> Hi Frederic,
>
> Texinfo modified its behavior regarding apostrophes, which are now
> replaced by UTF-8 right single quotes by default.
>
> Sorry to hear it, but not surprised.
>
> -GNU's Not Unix.
> +@verb{.GNU's Not Unix..}
>
> I don't think there's any guarantee that verb quotes will also be
> "helpfully" changed in the future. One wouldn't think so, but ...
>
There has to be some way to get a straight quote, and verbatim is (as
far as I can tell) intended for code examples and similar literal text.
Note that TeX has long (always?) converted backtick and apostrophe to
left and right quotes, building up double quotes from `` and '', so this
change in Texinfo harmonizes Info output with what texinfo.tex has
always produced. (There have been a few places in the DejaGnu manual
where I have converted ASCII double quotes to TeX style because regular
double quotes look seriously out of place in the PDF version.)
> So instead, I changed the test document to avoid apostrophes. Pushed the
> below. Hope it flies. --thanks, karl.
>
Since this is a test document, that should not be a problem.
-- Jacob