Re: texi2html output validity

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Ineiev writes:

 > GNU webmasters did receive reports from such visitors. I'm sure many
 > cases were not reported.

If GNU websites are correctly configured and send the correct MIME
charset in the Content-Type in the HTTP headers, the users should not
have a problem, and if they do have such problems, a META tag probably
won't help anyway because they have a *very broken* browser.

 > > Alternatively, for such systems it's trivial to generate UTF-16 from
 > > UTF-8.
 > 
 > I think I don't understand this. do you suggest that webmasters
 > provide two versions of pages for the users to select them
 > manually,

Definitely not.  The web is not the problem (see above).  The issue
(if any) is local copies where the HTTP Content-Type header is
unavailable.

 > or do you say that the users should convert the pages themselves?

If they have a local copy and they have Emacs, this is easy enough to
script.  I really don't see why we should complicate the Info-HTML
spec to save users from self-inflicted injuries.