> Eli Zaretskii writes: > >> From: Gavin Smith <[email protected]> >> Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2018 10:14:33 +0100 >> Cc: Texinfo <[email protected]> >> >> I don't know the context for this discussion but I doubt that it is a >> Texinfo bug. The Info viewer will display whatever types of quote were >> in the Info file which depends on the version of Texinfo it was >> generated with as well as the declared character encoding of the >> source Texinfo file. Currently I believe that Unicode directional >> double quotes are output for @dfn if the Texinfo file is declared to >> be encoded in UTF-8. It may have been a mistake to ever use Unicode >> directional single or double quotes in Info output (as it is for >> terminal output - it's not supposed to look good) - but this should >> not change now in my opinion as it would upset too many people. > > I believe the issue is that texinfo.texi doesn't declare > @documentlanguage, and therefore the Info output is produced as pure > ASCII, and uses ASCII quoting "like this" instead of Unicode quoting > “like this”. The Emacs manuals use the latter.
Maybe this and the following result: (concat "abc" "def")"abcdef" ;; C-u C-x C-e are things to make pretty with directional quotes in 5 or 10 years time.
