[bug #45859] Problems viewing Latin-1 Info file when Latin-1 locale is not installed

[Karl Berry]

Follow-up Comment #1, bug #45859 (project texinfo):

my view, with which you may disagree, is: do nothing.

i don't understand why it's info's place to solve every locale problem in the
world.  every single program that displays text from files has the same basic
issue, as far as i can see.  to me this means it has to be solved at a higher
level.

surely there are more useful improvements to make with (tex)info than to spend
time worrying about, let alone doing a substantial rewrite for, a case of an
8-bit info file (which shouldn't be created in the first place) being read on
a system without 8-bit locales (which is utterly inane IMHO).

by the way, i ran across a program called "luit" which, if i understood it
right, converts 8-bit encodings to utf-8 on the fly somehow.  i think it might
be for precisely this case, but i admit i'm not sure.



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