Re: [PATCHes] Add basic multibyte charset handling to makeinfo

[Miloslav Trmac]

Karl Berry napsal(a):
>     Thus I prefer a model in which all info files installed on the system
>     use a common character set
> 
> It's a nice theory, but realistically, it won't happen.  People will
> write (have written) documents using
> 
> @documentencoding ISO-8859-1
> and
> @documentencoding ISO-8859-2
> etc. and I sincerely doubt any Info documents have been "converted by a
> distributor" to UTF-8, ever.
Right, I would be surprised to find such a distributor as well.
However, I'm sure Fedora can convert all its documents, now that the
issue has arisen.


> This reminds me of the related issue of separating per-document
> translations (like "Chapter", which should be based on
> @documentlanguage) from per-program messages (like the --help output).
> This, unlike the encoding thing, should be doable, since gettext can
> switch between locales dynamically (there is some examples in the
> gettext distribution).
Yes.

> Since you are delving so deeply into makeinfo already, maybe there's a
> chance you could look at that?
Maybe, I'll want to make the standalone info viewer multibyte-aware
first, though.
        Mirek