Re: Circumflex accent on letter 'i'

[Florian Hatat]

Eli Zaretskii:
> What kind of character is @address@hidden, anyway?  Can you tell
> what's its Unicode codepoint,

00EE;LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH CIRCUMFLEX;(...)

> and what would you like it to produce in
> HTML (in the HTML source, not visually on the screen)?  As far as I
> could see, you simply want @^i, which produces "î" in the HTML
> output.

@address@hidden should produce î in HTML but it makes ^i.
@^i produces î in HTML but "i" with a dot and an accent with TeX.
I haven't looked at texinfo.tex, but I'm sure @^i is replaced by the \^i
TeX command, it should be \^\i.

I think both @^i and @address@hidden should output î in HTML
and a correct (with no dot) "î" (Unicode 0xee) with TeX.
With info, it's always the same: the output is something mike "^i",
but it's the same for every other accents. It could be reported as a
bug, since a french text with accents is intended to be displayed
on a computer that supports these symbols.

> > @^i would simply make an "i" with a dot AND a circumflex accent with
> > TeX, so I must use @address@hidden
> Well, then perhaps the bug is in texinfo.tex, not in makeinfo.

Depends on what we want to do.
If @^i must output 0xEE, texinfo.tex has to be fixed.
If @address@hidden must output 0xEE, makeinfo has to be fixed.

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Florian,
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