Re: @documentencoding and TeX

[Stepan Kasal]

Hello,

On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 02:10:06PM +0200, Akim Demaille wrote:
>  > 3) it's not an active project, and it's not maintained.
> 
> I didn't know about this.  If that's true, that's too bad: recode
> saved my life a million times.

well, I was too quick to say that.  I apologize to Francois.
I should have said:
It doesn't seem alive, it hasn't been modified for five years and the
author promises that it'll be replaced by another project.
(So it's in similar state as TeX and LaTeX, which we happily use... ;-)

> In the meanwhile, this hack is quite effective, and
> significantly improves the life of several people here.

OK, I understand it helps with French, and it doesn't matter for other
languages, as texinfo is unusable with them anyway.

>  > The fact that GNU recode was renamed to Free recode brings even more
>  > confusion.
> 
> What confusion?

I have to decide which project I will use and contribute to.
The name "Free recode" gave me an impression that it's not part of GNU,
so the glibc people could perhaps prefer a modified version of their
iconv program.

OK, I need to set my mind to one of the alternatives.  As the iconv is
not going to be so general as recode, and the "new recode" is NT ("not
there"), the best decision is probably that "recode 3.6" is the best
alternative.
When I have time, I should try to patch the problems I have with it, and
submit it to FP.

Have a nice day,
        Stepan