From: Collin Funk <collin.funk1@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2025 04:38:01 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: doc: prefer UTF-8 characters in texinfo sources
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doc: prefer UTF-8 characters in texinfo sources

* doc/coreutils.texi (Introduction): Use ç instead of @,{c}.
(Character arrays): Use ö instead of @"o. Use Ł instead of @L{}.
(Formatting file timestamps): Use ä instead of @"a.
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diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
index c2386a5191..3f1d3741ce 100644
--- a/doc/coreutils.texi
+++ b/doc/coreutils.texi
@@ -560,7 +560,7 @@ This manual was originally derived from the Unix man pages in the
 distributions, which were written by David MacKenzie and updated by Jim
 Meyering.  What you are reading now is the authoritative documentation
 for these utilities; the man pages are no longer being maintained.  The
-original @command{fmt} man page was written by Ross Paterson.  Fran@,{c}ois
+original @command{fmt} man page was written by Ross Paterson.  François
 Pinard did the initial conversion to Texinfo format.  Karl Berry did the
 indexing, some reorganization, and editing of the results.  Brian
 Youmans of the Free Software Foundation office staff combined the
@@ -6909,7 +6909,7 @@ The interpretation of @var{string1} and @var{string2} depends on locale.
 GNU @command{tr} fully supports only safe single-byte locales,
 where each possible input byte represents a single character.
 Unfortunately, this means GNU @command{tr} will not handle commands
-like @samp{tr @"o @L{}} the way you might expect,
+like @samp{tr ö Ł} the way you might expect,
 since (assuming a UTF-8 encoding) this is equivalent to
 @samp{tr '\303\266' '\305\201'} and GNU @command{tr} will
 simply transliterate all @samp{\303} bytes to @samp{\305} bytes, etc.
@@ -8310,8 +8310,8 @@ ls -l --time-style="locale"
 Other locales behave differently.  For example, in a German locale,
 @option{--time-style="locale"} might be equivalent to
 @option{--time-style="+%e. %b %Y $newline%e. %b %H:%M"}
-and might generate timestamps like @samp{30. M@"ar 2020@ } and
-@samp{30. M@"ar 23:45}.
+and might generate timestamps like @samp{30. Mär 2020@ } and
+@samp{30. Mär 23:45}.
 
 @item posix-@var{style}
 @vindex LC_TIME