Re: Standalone 'info' should recode into display's encoding

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 01 Jan 2014 09:44:29 -0800
> From: Per Bothner <address@hidden>
> CC: address@hidden
> 
> On 01/01/2014 08:00 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > If you mean people who want Unicode quotes, then those users can
> > regenerate the Info files for themselves.  What bothers me are the
> > Info files that get into the release tarball -- these should be
> > readable by everyone.
> 
> They are - if you make the info program/mode locale-aware.
> The correct place for locale-dependent behavior is in the
> viewing program, not the info-generating program.

Sorry, I'm not following.  Take the Emacs Info reader, for example: it
is already locale-aware, in that it stores the characters internally
in a Unicode-based encoding, and then encodes them according to the
locale when it writes them to the screen.

Is that what you had in mind as "locale-aware"?

If so, then it doesn't help in this case, because characters such as
u+2018 cannot be encoded in any encoding I know of except UTF,
certainly not in Latin-N.  What would you have a locale-aware viewer
do in this case, i.e. when the offending characters cannot be
represented in the locale's encoding?