doc: use UTF-8 in the manual

* doc/gzip.texi: Switch to UTF-8 encoding.  Fix ASCIIisms.
Don't use @sc; plain caps are fine for GNU manuals.

diff --git a/doc/gzip.texi b/doc/gzip.texi
index 9bcfbc4febdef1a83c3922a89feb5b9a49c37e9e..20709afa8ee760984503de1c3ab30b4f2a986be3 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/gzip.texi
+++ b/doc/gzip.texi
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 \input texinfo @c -*-texinfo-*-
 @c %**start of header
 @setfilename gzip.info
+@documentencoding UTF-8
 @include version.texi
 @settitle GNU Gzip
 @finalout
@@ -11,8 +12,8 @@ This manual is for GNU Gzip
 (version @value{VERSION}, @value{UPDATED}),
 and documents commands for compressing and decompressing data.
 
-Copyright @copyright{} 1998-1999, 2001-2002, 2006-2007, 2009-2014 Free Software
-Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright @copyright{} 1998--1999, 2001--2002, 2006--2007, 2009--2014
+Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
 Copyright @copyright{} 1992, 1993 Jean-loup Gailly
 
@@ -79,13 +80,13 @@ Free Documentation License''.
 @chapter Overview
 @cindex overview
 
-@command{gzip} reduces the size of the named files using Lempel-Ziv coding
+@command{gzip} reduces the size of the named files using Lempel--Ziv coding
 (LZ77).  Whenever possible, each file is replaced by one with the
 extension @samp{.gz}, while keeping the same ownership modes, access and
 modification times.  (The default extension is @samp{-gz} for @abbr{VMS},
 @samp{z} for @abbr{MSDOS}, @abbr{OS/2} @abbr{FAT} and Atari.)
 If no files are specified or
-if a file name is "-", the standard input is compressed to the standard
+if a file name is @file{-}, the standard input is compressed to the standard
 output.  @command{gzip} will only attempt to compress regular files.  In
 particular, it will ignore symbolic links.
 
@@ -140,7 +141,7 @@ its input, and happily generates garbage output.  The @abbr{SCO} @samp{compress
 also allows some consistency checks.
 
 Files created by @command{zip} can be uncompressed by @command{gzip} only if
-they have a single member compressed with the 'deflation' method.  This
+they have a single member compressed with the ``deflation'' method.  This
 feature is only intended to help conversion of @file{tar.zip} files to
 the @file{tar.gz} format.  To extract a @command{zip} file with a single
 member, use a command like @samp{gunzip <foo.zip} or @samp{gunzip -S
@@ -153,11 +154,11 @@ input and writes the uncompressed data on standard output.  @command{zcat}
 will uncompress files that have the correct magic number whether they
 have a @samp{.gz} suffix or not.
 
-@command{gzip} uses the Lempel-Ziv algorithm used in @command{zip} and
+@command{gzip} uses the Lempel--Ziv algorithm used in @command{zip} and
 @abbr{PKZIP}@.
 The amount of compression obtained depends on the size of the input and
 the distribution of common substrings.  Typically, text such as source
-code or English is reduced by 60-70%.  Compression is generally much
+code or English is reduced by 60--70%.  Compression is generally much
 better than that achieved by @abbr{LZW} (as used in @command{compress}), Huffman
 coding (as used in @command{pack}), or adaptive Huffman coding
 (@command{compact}).
@@ -169,11 +170,11 @@ ratio of 0.015% for large files.  Note that the actual number of used
 disk blocks almost never increases.  @command{gzip} normally preserves the mode,
 ownership and time stamps of files when compressing or decompressing.
 
-The @command{gzip} file format is specified in P. Deutsch, @sc{gzip} file
+The @command{gzip} file format is specified in P. Deutsch, GZIP file
 format specification version 4.3,
 @uref{http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1952.txt, Internet @abbr{RFC} 1952} (May
 1996).  The @command{zip} deflation format is specified in P. Deutsch,
-@sc{deflate} Compressed Data Format Specification version 1.3,
+DEFLATE Compressed Data Format Specification version 1.3,
 @uref{http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1951.txt, Internet @abbr{RFC} 1951} (May
 1996).