[utf-8] You better add Texinfo to your Bad Software list
Noah Levitt
nlevitt at columbia.edu
Tue Mar 16 22:52:23 PST 2004
You should add it to the list! If you don’t have a wiki
account, you can create one for yourself, then email me and
I will give you access to write to the page.
Noah
On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 1:41:54 -0500, Kevin Atkinson wrote:
>
> 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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> http://kevin.atkinson.dhs.org
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