Re: texinfo and UTF-8

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Sergey Poznyakoff" <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 17:47:00 +0300
> Cc: address@hidden, Karl Berry <address@hidden>
> 
> I have committed changes that make standalone info correctly output
> multybyte characters.  It is the first set of changes aimed to implement
> full multibyte support.

Thanks!

> This version correclty outputs nodes using multibyte encodings,
> provided that LC_ALL is set appropriately (e.g. viewing Laszlo's
> ooeva.info with LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 works OK). ANSI escape sequences
> (-R option) and info tags are handled no matter what encoding is
> being used.

Could we please discuss the design of this?  In particular, what do
you mean by ``LC_ALL is set appropriately'', and how do you intend to
handle possible differences between the file's encoding and the
encoding supported by the terminal?