Re: utf8 does not appear to work for function documentation strings generated with texinfo

[Alan W. Irwin]

On 2014-03-26 03:03-0700 CdeMills wrote:

> Using utf-8 with TeX requires to specify explicitelly the coding.
>
> With TexInfo, you need to add
>
> @documentencoding UTF-8

Thanks for your reply to my question.  However, as I stated in my OP,
I had tried some experiments with @documentencoding UTF-8, but could
not get it to work.  To be specific, here is one example that does not
work here with ocatve-3.6.2.

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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn  {Function File} address@hidden =} fn (@var{x}, …)
## @documentencoding UTF-8
## The unicode character, ≥, is output
## @end deftypefn

function test_utf8
printf("The unicode character, ≥, is output\n")
endfunction
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It yields the following truncated help results:

octave:1> test_utf8
The unicode character, ≥, is output
octave:2> help test_utf8
test_utf8' is a function from the file
/home/irwin/test_octave/test_utf8.m

 -- Function File: A = fn (X,
     The unicode character,
                           ^^^
Additional help for built-in functions and operators is
[....]

I also tried the experiment of putting the ## @documentencoding UTF-8
just after the texinfo line, but I still get the truncated help result.

Do you get untruncated help results with this simple example there for
your version of octave or is there some problem with how this simple
example is implemented?

Alan
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