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Re: ISO-8859-1
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Simon Josefsson |
Subject: |
Re: ISO-8859-1 |
Date: |
Tue, 16 Dec 2003 02:30:22 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
address@hidden (Karl Berry) writes:
> jas@@latte:~$ idn --quiet räksmörgås blåbærgrød
>
> I'm sorry to report that in general eight-bit characters in Texinfo
> documents simply aren't processed right by texinfo.tex.
Ouch.
> Omega won't help, though, so it's good you didn't bother to install it.
> (Almost all full TeX distributions include it, though, so you don't have
> to do it yourself.) Omega is about Unicode, and there is no Unicode
> support whatsoever in Texinfo at present. (Since Omega is backward
> compatible with TeX, more or less, it will work, more or less, on normal
> Texinfo documents, but there's no benefit to using it.)
It seems I actually did have 'omega' installed.
I don't know about TeX enough to aid in implementing this, but I have
one comment:
> Of course, since ultimately users just want to use 8-bit chars and have
> it do the right thing, I expect resistance is futile.
Yes. Storing UTF-8 or ISO-8859-1 in *.texi should work, IMHO.
I only have ~20 occurrences of non-ASCII in my manuals, so the @
approach could work during a transition, but it causes problems when
the texinfo source is generated from other sources, e.g., source code.
One of the occurrences is a human name, and it isn't nice to see the
name mutilated in the PS/PDF output...
Re: ISO-8859-1,
Simon Josefsson <=
Re: ISO-8859-1, Karl Berry, 2003/12/17