Re: problem with --enable-encoding

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2004 13:20:14 -0400
> From: address@hidden (Karl Berry)
> 
>     IMHO, using direct fwrite's is BAD, as it bypasses the normal stream
>     of makeinfo's output.
> 
> This is the end point of makeinfo's "normal stream of output".  The
> insert_string (or anything else) is ineffective because we are about to
> close the output file and exit the program.

Won't flush_output after a call to insert_string help here?

> Also, there's no point in any sort of conversion of the Local
> Variables trailer.  All that could do is mess things up, we know exactly
> what we want to write.

Well, now, yes; but imagine that someone, some day, adds more
processing to the code after this stage--we will have a subtle bug
that only sometimes raises its ugly head, depending on buffering.