On Sat, Oct 29, 2022 at 05:23:25PM +0200, Bruno Haible wrote: > My complaint was only about the (apparent / confused) need to use TeXinfo > syntax *for non-ASCII characters*.
It should only be required for non-ASCII characters if the encoding of the po file is us-ascii, for example in pt_BR.us-ascii.po the @-commands for accents need to be used. In other cases, I think that it is best to leave it to the translators. They can use @-commands if they wish, and not use them if they don't want to, both for accented letters and, more generally, for styling. This is explainined in https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/manual/texinfo/html_node/Internationalization-of-Document-Strings.html (though upon reading it I realized that it is a bit out of date...). -- Pat
