RE: multibyte chars in @multitable.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: multibyte chars in @multitable.
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 15:36:58 +0900

  | > I'm using texinfo-4.0.
  | > 
  | > In @multitable, when @item FOO is multibyte char like Japanese,
  | > texinfmt.el causes a wrong fitting, because
  | > string-bytes() returns in bytes with leading character and
  | > length() returns in chars in the language.
  | 
  | ??? Does makeinfo handle multibyte text?

I get the impression that
makeinfo can handle multibyte text as singlebyte.
It is correct only if bytes == visual width. (I use fixed font.)
In some coding system like iso-2022-jp, this assumption is not satisfied.

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KOIE Hidetaka <address@hidden>