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bug#41100: emacs-27 7081c1d: Fix typos in the Emacs user manual
From: |
Sebastian Urban |
Subject: |
bug#41100: emacs-27 7081c1d: Fix typos in the Emacs user manual |
Date: |
Sun, 10 May 2020 11:34:39 +0200 |
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> The preferred Unicode spelling these days is “Baháʼí” (with U+02BC
MODIFIED
> LETTER APOSTROPHE). However, although Texinfo can handle that
character and puts
> it into info files, the character doesn’t survive transliteration
to TeX (it
> gets lost). I don't know whether this is a bug in Texinfo or in
TeX, but anyway
> we need to work around it if we're going to use the correct spelling.
AND from patch:
> +@iftex
> +@c TeX mishandles ʼ (U+02BC MODIFIER LETTER APOSTROPHE), so
approximate
> +@c it with ', which TeX renders as a right single quotation mark.
> +@set Bahai Bahá'í
> +@end iftex
When I put this "modified letter apostrophe" alone in calendar.texi
and build PDF, in emacs.log the following line appear: "Unicode char
@u8:ʼ not defined for Texinfo", so perhaps it is Texinfo that
"mishandles" the apostrophe, not TeX.
S. U.