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+--- recode-3.6/doc/recode.texi	2000-12-06 20:55:33.000000000 +0100
++++ recode-3.6/doc/recode.texi	2020-04-08 03:31:51.282594665 +0200
+@@ -3713,7 +3713,7 @@
+ between HTML and various other charsets.
+ 
+ Here is a list of those HTML variants which @code{recode} supports.
+-Some notes have been provided by François Yergeau @email{yergeau@@alis.com}.
++Some notes have been provided by François Yergeau @email{yergeau@@alis.com}.
+ 
+ @table @code
+ @item XML-standalone