We already use them elsewhere, so I assume this is okay.
Will push in a bit.
--- 8< ---
* doc/coreutils.texi (Introduction): Use ç instead of @,{c}.
(Character arrays): Use ö instead of @"o. Use Ł instead of @L{}.
(Formatting file timestamps): Use ä instead of @"a.
---
doc/coreutils.texi | 8 ++++----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
index d31c80859..ed7ae7bde 100644
--- a/doc/coreutils.texi
+++ b/doc/coreutils.texi
@@ -560,7 +560,7 @@ @node Introduction
distributions, which were written by David MacKenzie and updated by Jim
Meyering. What you are reading now is the authoritative documentation
for these utilities; the man pages are no longer being maintained. The
-original @command{fmt} man page was written by Ross Paterson. Fran@,{c}ois
+original @command{fmt} man page was written by Ross Paterson. François
Pinard did the initial conversion to Texinfo format. Karl Berry did the
indexing, some reorganization, and editing of the results. Brian
Youmans of the Free Software Foundation office staff combined the
@@ -6909,7 +6909,7 @@ @node Character arrays
GNU @command{tr} fully supports only safe single-byte locales,
where each possible input byte represents a single character.
Unfortunately, this means GNU @command{tr} will not handle commands
-like @samp{tr @"o @L{}} the way you might expect,
+like @samp{tr ö Ł} the way you might expect,
since (assuming a UTF-8 encoding) this is equivalent to
@samp{tr '\303\266' '\305\201'} and GNU @command{tr} will
simply transliterate all @samp{\303} bytes to @samp{\305} bytes, etc.
@@ -8310,8 +8310,8 @@ @node Formatting file timestamps
Other locales behave differently. For example, in a German locale,
@option{--time-style="locale"} might be equivalent to
@option{--time-style="+%e. %b %Y $newline%e. %b %H:%M"}
-and might generate timestamps like @samp{30. M@"ar 2020@ } and
-@samp{30. M@"ar 23:45}.
+and might generate timestamps like @samp{30. Mär 2020@ } and
+@samp{30. Mär 23:45}.
@item posix-@var{style}
@vindex LC_TIME
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