Re: Improving standalone info usability

[Karl Berry]

Hi Gavin,

    Charset conversion is implemented.

Thanks for all the work, and description of the trade-offs.
It seems sound to me, FWIW.  We should await Sergey's review to commit.

    The attachment anchors.info is a test file to check that anchors point

Would you like to set up a (long-overdue) test framework for info?  I'm
guessing that with --dribble, --strict-node-location, and other options,
it should be possible to run tests in batch.

    (http://www.x.org/archive/X11R6.8.1/doc/luit.1.html) which seems to be
    a partial solution to this problem - however, it only supports UTF-8

Interesting.  It's only partial in another way, too -- the problem I
have is not with one-given-locale-to-UTF8 conversion; that's easy.  It's
that I receive mail and look at files in tons of different encodings.  I
mean, that's the reality of the world.  The only semi-solution I've
found is that current emacs, running under X, can adapt ok to different
encodings.  No terminal program I've found can.  Anyway ...

Thanks again,
Karl