In response to the recent change to the GNU coding standards, which now encourages quoting 'like this' (with apostrophes) or "like this" (with double-quotes) instead of `like this' (with acute accent and apostrophe) when quoting in ASCII, we've gone through Gnulib and have replaced most instances of the old quoting style with the new one. One area that still needs work is the output of 'makeinfo'.
One example is the gnulib file install.texi <http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=blob;f=doc/install.texi>. In GNU texinfo 4.13, when 'makeinfo --no-validate install.texi' sees this: see the @file{README} file it generates this: see the `README' file We want it to generate this instead, with apostrophes: see the 'README' file And in general, we want the glyph for left single quotation mark to be the ASCII apostrophe, when generating ASCII output. Of course when generating UTF-8 makeinfo can continue to use the Unicode directed single quotation marks. Currently we get the effect we want by transliterating ` to ' in makeinfo's output, but obviously this won't work in general as sometimes ` is what's wanted (e.g., in example code). I suggest modifying makeinfo so that it generates quotes 'like this' rather than `like this', in situations such as the above. If you like, I can try to code up a patch along these lines.
