Re: ^M in the info files

[Stefan Monnier]

>> Does info.el need to use Emacs's auto-detection machinery?  I mean don't
>> Info files come with their own scheme to specify the encoding used?

> FYI.  Only gnus.texi and emacs-mime.texi have
> @documentencoding directive along with coding: tag.  As a
> result (or not, I'm not sure), the resulting info files
> "gnus" and "emacs-mime" contain coding: tag.

But the others are pure ASCII aren't they (isn't that what it means for
an Info file not to have a "coding:" tag)?

> And, for instance, faq.texi has @today{} directive, and it
> seems that makeinfo generates a date string according to the
> current locale (and thus results in non-ASCII characters).

Isn't that a bug in makeinfo?


        Stefan