ASCII-only etc/NEWS etc.

* etc/NEWS, nextstep/README: Revert the recently-added curved
quotes, and stick to ASCII.  This typically involves replacing
curved with straight quotes.  Since etc/NEWS is viewed so often by
UTF-8-ignorant tools, rewrite its non-ASCII text to spell out
Unicode, e.g., replace ‘‒’ with ‘U+2012 (FIGURE DASH)’.

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/nextstep/README b/nextstep/README
index 65e715779de..7a1a0921cd8 100644
--- a/nextstep/README
+++ b/nextstep/README
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ adapted to GNUstep, a free OpenStep implementation, and in 2008 it was
 merged to the GNU Emacs trunk and released with Emacs 23.  Around the
 same time a separate Mac-only port using the Carbon APIs and
 descending from a 2001 MacOS 8/9 port of Emacs 21 was removed. (It
-remains available externally under the name “mac”.)
+remains available externally under the name "mac".)
 
 
   OVERVIEW OF COCOA AND OBJECTIVE-C
@@ -25,11 +25,11 @@ superset of C.  Anybody with experience with iOS or modern OS X
 application development should feel at home.
 
 A method call in Objective-C differs from most other languages in the
-fact that it doesn’t have a normal name.  Instead, the method name is
+fact that it doesn't have a normal name.  Instead, the method name is
 made up of the name of each parameter.  An exception to this rule are
 methods without parameters.
 
-The following calls a method in the object ‘anObject’.
+The following calls a method in the object 'anObject'.
 
     [anObject alpha:1 beta:2 gamma:3];
 
@@ -55,8 +55,8 @@ Classes are declared like the following:
   modify the NS code over a long period of time.  Keep the code simple
   and avoid language constructs that makes the code hard to maintain.
 
-* Don’t use macros and types intended for the XCode Interface Builder,
-  like ‘IBAction’.
+* Don't use macros and types intended for the XCode Interface Builder,
+  like 'IBAction'.
 
 * The NS interface should work on all version of OS X from 10.6.8
   (Snow Leopard) to the latest official release.
@@ -70,8 +70,8 @@ Classes are declared like the following:
 The NS interface features a printf-based trace package that prints the
 call tree of selected functions in the Cocoa interface, plus various
 extra information.  It can be enabled by uncommenting the line
-defining ‘NSTRACE_ENABLED’ in nsterm.h.  To enable more output,
-uncomment the lines defining symbols starting with ‘NSTRACE_GROUP’.
+defining 'NSTRACE_ENABLED' in "nsterm.h".  To enable more output,
+uncomment the lines defining symbols starting with 'NSTRACE_GROUP'.
 
 
   GNUSTEP AND OTHER COMPATIBLE SYSTEMS
@@ -121,8 +121,3 @@ GNU General Public License for more details.
 
 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 along with GNU Emacs.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-
-
-Local variables:
-coding: utf-8
-end: