From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
To: Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org>
Cc: libc-alpha@sourceware.org,
"Andreas K . Huettel" <dilfridge@gentoo.org>,
Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@gotplt.org>,
Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make sure INSTALL is ASCII plaintext again
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2024 14:53:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87v840uy8d.fsf@oldenburg.str.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240428145939.1526515-1-mark@klomp.org> (Mark Wielaard's message of "Sun, 28 Apr 2024 16:59:39 +0200")
* Mark Wielaard:
> This reverts commit 84e93afc7 ("Switch to UTF-8 for INSTALL") and
> reinstates commit c14f2e4aa ("Make sure INSTALL is ASCII plaintext")
> and regenerates INSTALL.
>
> It turns out that different versions of makeinfo (texinfo/texi2any),
> at least versions 7.0.3 and 7.1, put unicode quote glyphs in different
> places (specifically whether contractions like you'd, don't, aren't or
> you'll use ’ or '). This breaks the make dist target as used for
> (snapshot) releases, which have a check on the regenerated INSTALL
> file. Using --disable-encoding generates the same plaintext ASCII on
> all versions.
>
> An alternative would be to regenerate INSTALL with texinfo 7.1 and
> require that at least that version. But that seems too soon while
> various distros don't have 7.1 yet. We can try again to use UTF-8 for
> INSTALL in a couple of years.
Looks reasonable, thanks.
Reviewed-by: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Florian
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