Re: Circumflex accent on letter 'i'

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 21:10:31 +0100
> From: Florian Hatat <address@hidden>
> 
> Eli Zaretskii:
> > What kind of character is @address@hidden, anyway?  Can you tell
> > what's its Unicode codepoint,
> 
> 00EE;LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH CIRCUMFLEX;(...)

That's @^i, AFAIK.

> @^i produces &icirc; in HTML but "i" with a dot and an accent with TeX.
> I haven't looked at texinfo.tex, but I'm sure @^i is replaced by the \^i
> TeX command, it should be \^\i.

Sounds like a bug in texinfo.tex, to a non-TeXpert such as myself.

> I think both @^i and @address@hidden should output &icirc; in HTML
> and a correct (with no dot) "" (Unicode 0xee) with TeX.

Why would you need @address@hidden if @^i does the right thing?

> With info, it's always the same: the output is something mike "^i",
> but it's the same for every other accents.

This is the intended behavior: makeinfo currently produces 7-bit ASCII
output, unless the input includes 8-bit characters.

> It could be reported as a bug, since a french text with accents is
> intended to be displayed on a computer that supports these symbols.

I'm not sure this assumption is true.  For example, there are many
Texinfo documents which mention people whose names include non-ASCII
characters, but those documents are displayed on machines that don't
necessarily support those characters.  Worse, the Info file can be
displayed on a system, such as Windows, which assigns a different
glyph to the same 8-bit code.

This problem requires a solution, but it's not trivial.