> Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 08:57:07 +0900 > From: Katsumi Yamaoka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > ... I don't think this fix should be used as is. > > > Evidentally, back in November 2001, a user in FSF India could not > > format the then new edition of `emacs-lisp-intro.texi' using > > `texinfo-format-buffer' because `texinfmt.el' created the bad line > > > @end [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > He was using a Microsoft operating system and thought (erroneously, > > according to Eli Zaretskii) that `makeinfo' had not yet been ported. > > That is why he was using the deprecated `texinfo-format-buffer' > > command. > > > In any event, I completely forgot about it. > > I see, and I will have to keep in mind that there might still be > need to fix the [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]' problem.
I'd rather not have us fix a problem by reintroducing another problem that we fixed in the past. Isn't there another way to solve both of them at once? > Probably, what makeinfo should do first will be to decode text, > before formatting them. And the means to know the coding system > which is used to decode text will be necessary. There's already such a means: the @documentencoding directive. What is missing is support for multibyte encodings. _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
