Re: Unicode cuteness

[David Kastrup]

Mark Polesky <address@hidden> writes:

> Carl Sorensen wrote:
>> I'm OK with that, but I still have the concern of
>> documenting it.  What do we need to do to make sure that
>> the documentation works properly?
>
> I don't think it's worth it.  There are too many
> documentation issues.  I made a tiny change to
> tutorial.itely as a test; I just put a couple of these
> characters in @samp block.  The characters display nicely in
> html, but here are some problems I've found:
>
> 1) the characters don't display at all in pdf.
> 2) only half of the characters display in info.
> 3) gitk renders the commit with some weird escape sequences.
>
> Not sure if the gitk issue translates to any real problem,
> but the first two are obvious non-starters.  I've attached
> some images to demonstrate.

We will get into trouble with documenting Hebrew lyrics and other things
at one time then, I guess.

-- 
David Kastrup