[utf-8] You better add Texinfo to your Bad Software list

[Kevin Atkinson]

The Texinfo does not support UTF-8 or any form of Unicode.

Texinfo files must be in plain text.  All non-ascii characters must be 
encoded using TeX commands.  If you use ISO-8859-1 characters in the 
document they will not skipped in the printed Manual.  Ie 
"hànzi"(iso-8859-1) will appear as "hnzi" unless "h@`anzi" is used.

The only encoding Texinfo supports for non-printed output (ie Info file, 
Plain Text, Html) is iso-8859-1 or iso-8859-2.  UTF-8 is not an option.

The texinfo system can not support non-Latin scripts in any fashion.  It 
doesn't even seam to be able to support Cyrillic.

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