Re: Spanish font failure in Table of Contents

[Robert J. Chassell]

   Basically, 8-bit input does not work in the current texinfo.tex.

Oh!  I thought it did work -- I thought that some people in Spain
were writing documentation in Spanish.  I guess I was wrong.

Also, I thought that the @documentlanguage command implied support
for many languages.  Now, however, I read the next node in the
Texinfo manual and it says

    File: texinfo,  Node: documentencoding

    address@hidden ENC': Set Input Encoding
    ===========================================

      The address@hidden' command declares the input document
    encoding.  Write it on a line by itself, with a valid encoding
    specification following, such as `ISO-8859-1'.

      At present, this is used only in HTML output from `makeinfo'.

which implies it does not yet work for dvi output.


   Clearly it's highly desirable that it should, but I have not had the
   chance to work on it.  It's a large job, ....

<sigh> Over the next few months, I hope to inspire more translations
including German, French, and Chinese, and would like to produce them
in Texinfo.  I did not know that could not be done.

   The only workaround is to use composite accents such as @'o, 

That might work with Spanish, but not with Chinese.

As a work around, can I convert the Texinfo file with the Spanish in
it to DocBook or other XML using makeinfo and then print the result
and convert it to an HTML page? 

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