foreign language patch for build-index+cl-ppcre branch
Subject: foreign language patch for build-index+cl-ppcre branch
From: Raymond Toy
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 09:11:28 -0500
On 2/22/11 1:02 AM, Robert Dodier wrote:
> On 2/21/11, Raymond Toy <toy.raymond at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I think that if you treat the info files as byte streams and then just
>> output the bytes as read from the info file, you'll get the correct
>> result. This assumes that the user has set up his environment and
>> terminal to use the correct encoding.
> I'm pretty sure that's not so. The code replaced by the patch
> I posted in this thread did just that, and the characters were
> displayed incorrectly. I changed the code and now they are
> displayed correctly.
>
> I'm willing to be convinced otherwise if you have some working code.
Because this is how the old system worked? At least I think this is how
the old system worked. I confess the only time I really looked at it
was when Leo was first starting this work and was building on the
existing system using nregex instead of cl-ppcre.
Ray