Re: Texinfo Windows patch

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2014 17:55:36 +1000
> From: Jason Hood <address@hidden>
> 
> Find attached a patch (based on the 5.2 release; apply with -p1) to
> address some issues with the Windows port:

Thanks.

> * enhances the gnulib stat replacement to provide meaningful values for
>   st_ino & st_dev, thus enabling detection of duplicate directories;

Patches for Gnulib functions should be sent to the Gnulib mailing
list, address@hidden

Btw, is this change really worth the hassle?  Not being able to detect
duplicate directories means (AFAIK) they will be searched twice, which
is slightly slower if the directory does not have the file we want.
But OTOH, the CreateFile call also slows down the program, right?

> * improves screen output (faster, correctly displays both UTF-8 and
>   latin1 files).

But doesn't that require to use a specific font (Lucida Console,
AFAIR) to be able to show the Unicode characters, such as quotes,
frequently used by UTF-8 encoded Info files nowadays?

Thanks again for working on this.