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Re: guile 2.0.9 build on mingw
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: guile 2.0.9 build on mingw |
Date: |
Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:53:32 +0300 |
> From: address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès)
> Cc: address@hidden
> Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:19:13 +0200
>
> > As long as we are on the topic of the Info docs: producing Info
> > manuals with UTF-8 encoded characters is not a good idea for the MinGW
> > build, because the Windows console does not support UTF-8, and so at
> > least the stand-alone Info reader will show a lot of garbage on
> > Windows. I suggest to use --disable-encoding for the MinGW build.
>
> The problem is that the tarball comes with a .info file so that users
> don’t need to have makeinfo installed (as per the GCS).
I know. I didn't want to go as far as asking to not use UTF-8 in the
tarball as well (although given the lack of characters in the docs
that really need UTF-8, that would not be such a bad idea). But at
least rebuilding docs could then DTRT.
> What about suggesting Windows users to use Emacs to view the
> documentation? My feeling is that people aware of Info on Windows may
> already being doing this anyway.
I use both, FWIW.
- Re: guile 2.0.9 build on mingw, (continued)
- Re: guile 2.0.9 build on mingw, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/06/12
- Re: guile 2.0.9 build on mingw, Ludovic Courtès, 2013/06/16
- Re: guile 2.0.9 build on mingw, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/06/16
- Re: guile 2.0.9 build on mingw, Mark H Weaver, 2013/06/17
- Re: guile 2.0.9 build on mingw, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/06/18
- Re: guile 2.0.9 build on mingw, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/06/18
- Re: guile 2.0.9 build on mingw, Ludovic Courtès, 2013/06/18
- Re: guile 2.0.9 build on mingw,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: guile 2.0.9 build on mingw, Ludovic Courtès, 2013/06/19
- Re: guile 2.0.9 build on mingw, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/06/19