Hi.
On 06/11/06, Robert Dodier <robert.dodier at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Marco,
>
> > Just a couple of questions (feel free to replay to this message to the list
> > if you find it of public interest...). I work under linux and I see that
> > even with the others foreign languages texinfo sources, I'm not able to see
> > the .info file correctly for the acceted chars (most used in italian). I use
> > the standard "info" program to see the pages with a terminal with utf-8
> > encoding. So I wonder which encoding I should use? iso-8859-1 or iso-8859-15
> > or UTF-8? And how to see correctly the makeinfo results?
>
> I don't know much about the details here. Can someone else respond?
> An additional question which I have, to what extent is it possible to
> use non-ascii characters in texinfo files? e.g. utf-8 or accents or other
> diacriticals in iso-8859-1.
iso-8859-1 is slightly more common in our side of the fence (the free
software side) than utf-8, which seems preferred in the Windows world.
> TeX itself is not comfortable with non-ascii,
> but maybe makeinfo or maybe texi2html?
Hm. I haven't worked much with TeXinfo files in non-English languages,
so this could be a source of problems. I'll have a look at this later.
- Jordi