Re: Glossary PDF shows ugly UTF-8 characters

[John Mandereau]

Graham Percival wrote:
> I _really_ do not want to touch texinfo right now.  The .tely file has 
> a c-with-cedilla.  The HTML output includes the c-with-cedilla.  The 
> pdf has that weird "A" with a "~" on top.  The .tely includes
> @documentencoding utf-8
> but the build process has always complained that "utf-8 is not a valid 
> encoding".
> 
> Anybody have any ideas?

Yes: Texinfo actually does not support UTF-8 encoding :-(
Yet it is possible to use UTF-8 in the .texi sources, HTML output is
only displayed correctly with browsers that read UTF-8 by default
(unlike lilypond.org pages, UTF-8 is not declared in the HTML header
docs).

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John Mandereau <address@hidden>