Re: [help-texinfo] problems with German characters

[Karl Berry]

    output the table of content in the sidebar was messed up.
    It replaced for example "ä" with "a". 

Doing things right in the bookmarks is very difficult, because it does
not use the same encoding as the rest of the PDF.  I don't envision any
fix for this.

    I found out, that the docbook output was fine, when I replaced the 
    German characters in the Nodes and section-names with @-codes like 
    '@"a'. 

I'm surprised, but hey, if it works, great.

    German characters in the Nodes and section-names with @-codes like 
    '@"a'. So I was pleased for a moment... until I saw, that this messed
    up the HTML-output again. :-(

Try makeinfo --commands-in-node-names --html.  I don't know whether it
will work.

    Another area, which is really problematic is the hyphanation.  

BTW, with current texinfo.tex and a current TeX installation, it should
read German patterns ("ngerman", to be specific).

    Would it be at least possible to switch the hyphenation completely off?

@tex
\global\hyphenpenalty=10000
@end tex


Best,
karl