Re: Can't thank Benoît!

[Akim Demaille]

 > Hi Akim,
 >     address@hidden Perrot: makeinfo fails, 

 > Please explain "makeinfo fails".  I get i^ in regular output, and that's
 > the best it can do.  If I use --enable-encoding, I get \356 (I'm typing
 > that as \,3,5,6 but I mean the i-circumflex character at octal 356, of
 > course), which I suspect is what you are looking for.

Doh.  Indeed, thanks Karl :(  Actually, I pictured this as a bug,
since I had other accents correct.  But I cannot reproduce it now :(
Is this bound to locales?  Oh, no, I think I have it: with --no-header
it is automatic, without, it is not...  I didn't think it might have
an influence.

Well, no.  I first saw the problem in HTML, and when trying to strip
it down to simple text, I got confused.

 >     makehtml passes for weird reasons
 >     since it outputs @samp{Benoît}, 

 > What's weird about î ?  Ilsn't that exactly i-circumflex?  And isn't
 > that the best thing to output?

Again, my mistake.  I misread the entity, sorry about this.


 >     TeX is ugly (accent + dot),

 > Indeed.  Giving you what you asked for ...

Yep :)

 >     address@hidden@dotless{i}}t Perrot, makeinfo fails, makehtml fails, TeX 
 > is OK

 > This is the one that should work.

 > Same story as above for makeinfo.

 > makeinfo --html's failure to use î or \356 is a bug.  kama, I
 > wonder if you'd be able to work on this?  I'd appreciate it.  (You can
 > get Akim's original mail out of the archive if you need it, but it boils
 > down to the above.)

That's my real problem :)