I'm reading the Emacs manual in Info-mode. Some non-ascii characters render as octal escape sequences rather than glyphs. For example, node 23.2 Minor Modes contains the following text:
Electric Quote mode automatically converts quotation marks. For example, it requotes text typed `like this' to text ‘like this’.
When I view it in an info buffer, I see:
Electric Quote mode automatically converts quotation marks. For example, it requotes text typed `like this' to text \342\200\230like this\342\200\231.
If I select this text and write the region to a file, I can open that file and Emacs renders it correctly.
I'm running Emacs in a gui, but I've repro'd everything above in the terminal as well, and both with and without my init file.
What's causing this behavior, and how can I fix it so info buffers render correctly?
emacs -Q
(no init file) then please consider reporting it as an Emacs bug:M-x report-emacs-bug
. If you do not see it with virgin Emacs the recursively bisect your init file to find the culprit code.texinfo
program 4.8? This sounds like bug#24637. The fix is to upgrade to 4.13 or higher.