Re: Makeinfo generates wrong link

[Patrice Dumas]

On Mon, Oct 03, 2022 at 09:02:03PM -0400, Richard Stallman wrote:
> So where do these strange numbers come from?
> 
> https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/System_002dspecific-Predefined-Macros.html#System_002dspecific-Predefined-Macros
> 
> Could there be a bug in texi2any that handles hyphen wrong?
> 0x2d is the hex code for hyphen.

The whole description of how the url for inter manual links in HTML are
done is in:
https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/manual/texinfo/html_node/HTML-Xref.html

The hyphen is already used for spaces, so it is protected as any other
character (except for ASCII letters and numbers):
https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/manual/texinfo/html_node/HTML-Xref-Node-Name-Expansion.html

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Pat