Re: generate_html: utf-8 texinfo broken

[Philip Nienhuis]

Julien Bect wrote:
> Le 06/03/2015 14:01, Colin Macdonald a écrit :
> > I'm using utf-8 unicode in my texinfo docs for Symbolic package.  Mostly
> > works fine within Octave---except on Windows which is
> > https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?43099 which is on the list for 4.0.
> >
> > However, "get_html_options" from the generate_html pkg is hardcoding a
> > iso-8859-1 header, so online my unicode renders as garbage.
> >
> > "makeinfo --html" respects the texinfo tag "@documentencoding UTF-8" so
> > there is no problem at that level.
>
> Sure. Actually, even without a @documentencoding, the output of makeinfo
> is marked as utf-8.
>
> > Should I patch generate_html pkg?  I could presumably make it check
> > @documentencoding...
> >
> > Personally, I feel life it too short to care about non-utf-8: would
> > hardcoding to utf-8 instead be frowned upon?
>
> The problem is already solved in the development version of generate_html.
>
> http://sourceforge.net/p/octave/generate_html/ci/bc4bd4215c680ecc1fec89a772169cd018806659/

That broke a few things :-)

I'm trying to generate html for the linear-algebra package and that 
breaks in html_help_text.m as the fix assumes there's always a charset 
defined. In many texinfo headers there isn't.
As a consequence L.91 of html_help_text errors out.

Changeset attached,

Philip

html_help_text_charset.cs
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