Re: Avoid apostrophe being output as non-ASCII quote in Info output

[Gavin Smith]

On Thu, Feb 23, 2023 at 08:50:15AM +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> > The latter would probably be an improvement for --- and -- too, as
> > the two types of dash may appear indistinguishable in a fixed width font:
> > 
> >    a — b – c
> 
> A -- becomes - with ASCII_PUNCTUATION=1, so it isn't more distinguishable
> than the unicode ndash.  To make it distinguishable, we should have ---
> remains --- and -- remains --.
> 

The point was to distinguish em dash from en dash, not en dash from
hyphen.  A single ASCII hyphen seems to be appropriate to use for an
en dash.

> This looks good to me.  The only issue I see is that the original report
> that made us add ASCII_PUNCTUATION asked for everything relevant to be
> ASCII, including what can be set with *QUOTE_SYMBOL.  Now, to get the
> same effect one would have to set
>  ASCII_GLYPH=1 OPEN_QUOTE_SYMBOL=` CLOSE_QUOTE_SYMBOL=' 
> OPEN_DOUBLE_QUOTE_SYMBOL=" CLOSE_DOUBLE_QUOTE_SYMBOL="
> 
> Should we add another customization option that does that (and also sets
> ASCII_PUNCTUATION=1 for consistency)?

Good point, that is a lot.  It would be good to have an option that
sets all of these.