Re: support of Japanese in makeinfo

[Katsumi Yamaoka]

>>>>> In <address@hidden> Karl Berry wrote:

> Texinfo has @documentencoding and @documentlanguage commands now.  It
> does not seem like it should be *too* hard to use them to change
> makeinfo's rules for parsing the input and producing the output, but
> it's a long way from easy.

I can easily imagine it to be not easy.  Emacs took many people
long years to multilingualize and it is still being developed.
Actually, I hardly know such other advanced programs supporting
multilingual text.

> (And I have basically no clue how to do the TeX output either,
> but you didn't ask for that. :)

I only know we have a need to generate Info files using the same
encoding as the source, sorry.

> However, I don't see any prospect that I'll be able to do this myself
> any time soon (if ever), and no one else is working much on makeinfo
> these days.  (I put it on the TODO list, but that list is
> extraordinarily long.)

I see.

> So, could you follow rms's suggestion and post the suggestion somewhere
> that Japanese free software hackers are likely to see it?  I'll
> certainly be happy to install any workable patches to support it.

Yes, I will call for developers in newsgroups and in some lists.
I'm not optimistic such a person shows up at once, though.

Best regards,