revised describe function now on cvs branch

> I have committed another revision of build_index.pl which (I hope) 
> correctly
> computes the length of the deffn/defvr items (by counting characters
> instead of bytes).
> 
> Node text lengths are not correct -- I need to make the same change for 
> them.
> I'll work on that tomorrow (local time).

Hi Robert!

Great!  Now it works almost fine except the length problem
you mentioning.  But I worry that enforcing :utf8 for open
is not universal solution.  It is OK with any utf8 locale and with
English but what about other languages in 8-bit encodings?
Maybe pt and es in iso-8859-1 are OK too since they have
small number of non-ASCII character codes.

As far as I know Perl's open accept any encoding
so maybe it is good idea to pass encoding
to build_index script as extra parameter?

Vadim

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