Perhaps I'm confused: if Texinfo commands are not the recommended way,
The Texinfo commands aren't unrecommended either. Both ways have their advantages -- it depends on the document. That's why we support both. then why do we have them? why not tell users to always use literal non-ASCII characters? Because there are many, many cases where the document is 99+% English, representable in 7-bit ASCII, but a few special characters and/or accented letters are needed. It would be horrible to force users into the whole encoding madness just for that. On the other hand, for a whole document written in Polish or whatever, it is exceedingly painful to have to resort to the accent commands; it makes the source nearly unreadable. That's when having the 8-bit chars is useful. Things have been this way for decades. It's not going to change. Anyway, back to the suggestion at hand: fine, I will make the --enable-encoding behavior the default when @documentencoding is specified in the upcoming release. I hope it helps. karl _______________________________________________ emacs-pretest-bug mailing list emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-pretest-bug