On Tue, Jul 01, 2025 at 07:34:37PM -0700, Collin Funk wrote: > Antonio Diaz Diaz <[email protected]> writes: > > > While we are at it, there is an inconsistency between maintain.texi > > and standards.texi; they both contain an accented 'é', but > > maintain.texi encodes it directly in UTF-8, while standards.texi uses > > the (IMHO preferable) texinfo command "@'e": > > > > --- maintain.texi~ 2025-06-22 12:43:15.000000000 +0200 > > +++ maintain.texi 2025-06-28 19:54:32.000000000 +0200 > > @@ -2758,9 +2758,9 @@ > > humorous, so we do not defend every joke obtusely to the bitter end. > > But @emph{the fact that it is a joke} is not a valid objection. > > > > -There are people who frown on anything that is slightly risqué or > > +There are people who frown on anything that is slightly risqu@'e or > > controversial, including jokes. It would be a terrible shame for that > > -attitude to prevail, so our policy is that the occasional risqué joke > > +attitude to prevail, so our policy is that the occasional risqu@'e joke > > is ok. GNU is a 21st century project, not a 19th. > > > > @node Other Politics > > This one looks fine too, but I am not sure it is needed with since the > file has "@documentencoding UTF-8".
Nowadays, the default is UTF-8 when there is no @documentencoding (but keeping the "@documentencoding UTF-8" for older versions is ok too). I think that going forward, using é is more in line with the multilingual situation. However, if the authors may have difficulties writing accented characters in documents, @'e is still possible. -- Pat
