Re: Snippet 706: Generating custom flags

[Werner LEMBERG]

>> By your patch, address@hidden' and address@hidden' are no problem.  † and ‡ 
>> occur no
>> errors but they are missed in PDF.

Yes, there are more problems in texinfo.tex with non-8bit engines – it
seems that the complete UTF-8 logic is severely broken in that case.

For 8bit engines, the glyphs for † and ‡ are taken from other fonts,
but this mechanism fails for both luatex and xetex.

> I think it's safe to say that this patch is not going to help.
> We'll need a fix in texinfo.tex.

Yep.  It's really surprising that noone has ever reported those
problems, which certainly exist since a few years...


    Werner