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Re: makeinfo with utf-8 support
From: |
Karl Hammar |
Subject: |
Re: makeinfo with utf-8 support |
Date: |
Mon, 08 Jan 2007 13:33:44 +0100 |
> address@hidden:
> > Le jeudi 04 janvier 2007 à 00:33 +0100, Karl Hammar a écrit :
> > > Hmm, when building I get:
> > >
> > > out/lilypond.nexi:62: warning: unrecognized encoding name `utf-8'.
> ...
> > > Does anybody know where the makeinfo with utf-8 support is, a patch ?
> >
> > AFAIK Texinfo does no character encoding conversion for the Info and
> > HTML output, so the LilyPond devels have decided to use the modern
> > character set UTF-8, not Latin1. This will really become a problem for
> > the PDF (outputted by Texinfo/TeX) when we decide to make PDF of Lily
> > docs translation.
> >
> > Well, you can safely ignore these warnings.
> >
> > See also
> > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2007-01/msg00047.html
>
> Tried cvs version [1] of texinfo/makeinfo
>
> $ makeinfo --version
> makeinfo (GNU texinfo) 4.8.90
>
> But the warning persist. Well, never mind.
>
> Regards
> /Karl
>
> [1] http://savannah.gnu.org/cvs/?group=texinfo
This is fixed in latest texinfo cvs:
Karl Berry:
> I just added UTF-8 to the list of encoding names recognized by makeinfo
> (from CVS). It just passes through the bytes as they are received,
> which hopefully will be better than nothing. I can't undertake to
> actually parse UTF-8 at this point (I added it to the TODO file :).
>
> Thanks,
> Karl
Regards
/Karl