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Re: Typesetting non-ASCII names in Emacs manuals
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Typesetting non-ASCII names in Emacs manuals |
Date: |
Wed, 09 Mar 2011 16:32:22 +0200 |
> From: Jason Rumney <address@hidden>
> Cc: Glenn Morris <address@hidden>, address@hidden, address@hidden
> Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2011 22:19:11 +0800
>
> 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.
How about the cost of seeing the names garbled (see above)?
- Re: Emacs-diffs Digest, Vol 100, Issue 28, (continued)
- Re: Emacs-diffs Digest, Vol 100, Issue 28, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/03/08
- Re: Emacs-diffs Digest, Vol 100, Issue 28, Glenn Morris, 2011/03/08
- Re: Emacs-diffs Digest, Vol 100, Issue 28, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/03/08
- Re: Emacs-diffs Digest, Vol 100, Issue 28, Glenn Morris, 2011/03/09
- Re: Typesetting non-ASCII names in Emacs manuals, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/03/09
- Re: Typesetting non-ASCII names in Emacs manuals, Andreas Schwab, 2011/03/09
- Re: Typesetting non-ASCII names in Emacs manuals, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/03/09
- Re: Typesetting non-ASCII names in Emacs manuals, Andreas Schwab, 2011/03/09
- Re: Typesetting non-ASCII names in Emacs manuals, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/03/09
- Re: Typesetting non-ASCII names in Emacs manuals, Jason Rumney, 2011/03/09
- Re: Typesetting non-ASCII names in Emacs manuals,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: Typesetting non-ASCII names in Emacs manuals, Stefan Monnier, 2011/03/09
- Re: Typesetting non-ASCII names in Emacs manuals, Juanma Barranquero, 2011/03/09
- Re: Typesetting non-ASCII names in Emacs manuals, Juanma Barranquero, 2011/03/09
- Re: Typesetting non-ASCII names in Emacs manuals, Jason Rumney, 2011/03/09
- Re: Typesetting non-ASCII names in Emacs manuals, Juanma Barranquero, 2011/03/09
- Re: Typesetting non-ASCII names in Emacs manuals, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/03/09
- Re: Typesetting non-ASCII names in Emacs manuals, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/03/09
- Re: Typesetting non-ASCII names in Emacs manuals, Glenn Morris, 2011/03/09
- Re: Typesetting non-ASCII names in Emacs manuals, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/03/09
- Re: Typesetting non-ASCII names in Emacs manuals, Glenn Morris, 2011/03/09