Re: Typesetting non-ASCII names in Emacs manuals

[Jason Rumney]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

> A solution for the warning and -- more importantly -- for producing an
> Info file that doesn't render correctly (because it has no coding
> cookie, since makeinfo 4.8 didn't recognize the document encoding).

> And if "a few odd characters" is not an issue, then why make this
> change at all?  It was, after all, to fix "a few odd characters" in
> the names of some contributors, wasn't it?

Surely the cost of an extra warning for old versions of makeinfo is
worth it if users of newer versions of makeinfo can have the "odd
character" problem fixed.