On 01/23/2012 05:20 PM, Karl Berry wrote:
Yes, fine. But the question at hand is about the info/plaintext output
for @file when enable-encoding is *not* set, and/or utf-8 is not
specified,. Up till now, makeinfo in all its forms has output `foo'.
But I guess we have to now change to 'foo'.
A better alternative might be for makeinfo to create info files
containing the utf-8 directed quotes, and for the make program
(and emacs make mode) to translate depending on locale.
A related question: how does/should makeinfo+info handle non-ascii
characters in the source? For example if I'm writing documentation
in Norwegian. Is the info output supposed to be locale-specific?
That seems in principle wrong, though in practice we may be stuck.
[Most of you know my opinion in this matter: info as a *file* format
should be killed dead and replaced by some variant of [X]HTML. I've been
saying this for 20 years, it seems.]
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