Re: [help-texinfo] Umlaut strangeness

[Andreas Falkenhahn]

On 01.06.2016 at 23:43 Karl Berry wrote:

> Thank you for your clear email.  You're completely right about email
> programs confusing the issue of literal 8-bit or Unicode characters in
> contexts like this.

> It is definitely possible.  There may be a bug in texinfo.tex in this
> regard, or maybe it's the known deficiency.  I'll experiment.

> Meanwhile, there is one more test you can try: use the Texinfo sequence
> of 7-bit ASCII characters:
>   @"U
> instead of any literal character. 

That's what I tried originally (see my very first mail). It doesn't work.
When using

@chapter @"U

the umlaut appears correctly on the page but not in the bookmarks. It
doesn't make any difference whether @documentencoding is set to ISO-8859-1
or not. It just doesn't work right.

Any other ideas?

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Best regards,
 Andreas Falkenhahn                            mailto:address@hidden