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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: |
Mon, 09 Jul 2007 10:47:31 +0300 |
> From: Richard Stallman <address@hidden>
> CC: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden,
> address@hidden
> Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:23:28 -0400
>
> It is pure luck if an Info file was generated for the same character
> set that your terminal supports.
That's not what I see when I travel, especially not in the Far East.
> Personally, I think preferring locale-specific encoding is TRT, since
> most of the installed manuals that use non-ASCII characters are more
> likely to use that than anything else.
>
> No, they will use a whole range of coding systems, on your machine,
> on my machine, and on anybody's machine.
>
> That is not a solution.
That is not a 100% solution for 100% of the problem, but it's a good
compromise that works well in practice. You often advise others to
shy away of purism and instead embrace practical compromises on the
Right side of the 80-20 divide. Why not go with this advice in this
case?
- Re: Info pages opened with an incorrect coding system, (continued)
- Re: Info pages opened with an incorrect coding system, Kenichi Handa, 2007/07/16
- Re: Info pages opened with an incorrect coding system, Richard Stallman, 2007/07/06
- Re: Info pages opened with an incorrect coding system, Zhang Wei, 2007/07/06
- Re: Info pages opened with an incorrect coding system, Richard Stallman, 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,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: Info pages opened with an incorrect coding system, Richard Stallman, 2007/07/09
- 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, 2007/07/10
- 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