Re: Spanish font failure in Table of Contents

[Karl Berry]

    El código fuente es vital

As I expected, when I run this through TeX the o-acute does not print,
since there is no character in the font at that position.

The TOC contains the ^^xy sequences that is how TeX represents arbitrary
characters.

Basically, 8-bit input does not work in the current texinfo.tex.
Clearly it's highly desirable that it should, but I have not had the
chance to work on it.  It's a large job, requiring us to use different
fonts among other things (probably EC is the way to go, which is
basically CM with tons of preaccented letters in the upper half).

The only workaround is to use composite accents such as @'o, which are
inferior for many reasons, but should work.  You'll also need to run TeX
with Spanish hyphenation enabled.

Sorry.