[PATCH] Make sure INSTALL is plaintext

[Paul Eggert]

On 2023-06-29 06:48, Siddhesh Poyarekar via Libc-alpha wrote:
> Alternatively I could just regenerate and push INSTALL with the updated 
> quotation marks, would you prefer that?

I’d prefer that, yes. Gnulib switched INSTALL from ASCII to UTF-8 in 
January, mimicking the planned next Autoconf release, and it’s worked 
fine in other GNU packages. Here’s what Autoconf/Gnulib INSTALL looks 
like now:

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/plain/doc/INSTALL

And in glibc INSTALL, ASCII quotes are a bit confusing in some places, 
e.g., its line:

      example, '--with-pkgversion='FooBar GNU/Linux glibc build 123''.

uses ' for both kinds of quotes, whereas it’s a bit better to use 
English-language single quotation marks ‘like this’ for the outer quotes 
and ASCII apostrophe 'like this' for the inner quotes. True, many people 
won’t notice the difference but it’s quite visible at least to me, with 
the default Emacs fonts on my platform.

How about if we install the attached further patch to glibc?
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