Re: [help-texinfo] Changing fonts (default one doesn't support accents)

[John Gabriele]

On 12/15/06, Nicolas Maufrais <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Translations of the manual I work on (Cinelerra manual) have begun.
>
> We noticed it's not possible to make the pdf manual, when the texinfo
> file contains accents. The accented characters do not appear in the
> output (even if they do appear in the pdf output).

Hi Nicolas. I'm not sure I understand that paragraph. Are you able to
generate a pdf, or does it fail leaving you with no pdf file?

> Here's what's written in the log:
>
> Missing character: There is no é in font cmr10!
> Missing character: There is no é in font cmr10!
> Missing character: There is no é in font cmr10!
>
> {snip}
>
> I was really surprised to discover texinfo doesn't support accents
> unless you edit the texinfo.tex file. :-/

This sound odd. I've had to have seen many TeX-generated docs with
accented characters in them. Are you generating the accented character
using the Texinfo command (@'e), or are you typing it in as one
character in your editor? What encoding are you using for your source
text file?