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Re: Info pages opened with an incorrect coding system
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Info pages opened with an incorrect coding system |
Date: |
Tue, 10 Jul 2007 11:37:33 -0400 |
> Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2007 16:14:15 -0500
> From: address@hidden (Karl Berry)
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
>
> source was written well,
>
> I can't agree that it is bad to use literal characters instead of
> Texinfo commands.
Perhaps I'm confused: if Texinfo commands are not the recommended way,
then why do we have them? why not tell users to always use literal
non-ASCII characters?
> IOW, I think the fact that the document specifies @documentencoding
> should be enough for makeinfo to obey; relying on an additional
> command-line switch is unreliable.
>
> I don't see that it's unreliable, although I could agree with
> "inconvenient".
Sorry, I should have explained: it is unreliable from the point of
view of the document author. As an author, I cannot simply put a
@documentencoding directive in the document and be sure that the
result will absolutely positively displayed correctly in Emacs.
- Re: Info pages opened with an incorrect coding system, (continued)
- Re: Info pages opened with an incorrect coding system, Karl Berry, 2007/07/07
- Re: Info pages opened with an incorrect coding system, Eli Zaretskii, 2007/07/07
- Re: Info pages opened with an incorrect coding system, Richard Stallman, 2007/07/08
- Re: Info pages opened with an incorrect coding system, Karl Berry, 2007/07/08
- Re: Info pages opened with an incorrect coding system, Eli Zaretskii, 2007/07/09
- Re: Info pages opened with an incorrect coding system, Karl Berry, 2007/07/09
- Re: Info pages opened with an incorrect coding system,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: Info pages opened with an incorrect coding system, Karl Berry, 2007/07/10
- Re: Info pages opened with an incorrect coding system, Eli Zaretskii, 2007/07/10
Re: Info pages opened with an incorrect coding system, Richard Stallman, 2007/07/04