texinfo update (Thu Feb 21 14:23:01 EST 2008)

[Karl Berry]

Index: TODO
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RCS file: /sources/texinfo/texinfo/TODO,v
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--- TODO        19 Feb 2008 14:58:29 -0000      1.42
+++ TODO        21 Feb 2008 19:08:24 -0000      1.43
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-$Id: TODO,v 1.42 2008/02/19 14:58:29 karl Exp $
+$Id: TODO,v 1.43 2008/02/21 19:08:24 karl Exp $
 This is the todo list for GNU Texinfo.
 If you are interested in working on any of these, email address@hidden
 
@@ -131,9 +131,20 @@
     for an example of doing it in both the tex and info versions.
 
 * Info:
-  - Support multibyte character sets, principally UTF-8; most
-    critically, do not break multibyte characters across lines.
+  - (By far the most important bug to fix.)
+    Support multibyte character sets, principally UTF-8; most
+    critically, do not break multibyte characters across lines, but lots
+    of other problems are present.  This implies major changes to Info,
+    since it currently assumes byte/character equivalence (having been
+    written long before multibyte character sets were common).
+
+    Here's a careful bug report on the subject (the sender can help test):
+    http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2007-11/msg00033.html
+    
+    Here's an initial bug report and "patch" that simply disables translation.
     http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2006-08/msg00001.html
+    
http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/browser/trunk/texinfo/texinfo-4.8-multibyte-1.patch
+    
   - The help message does not report Down/Up for next/prev-line.
   - It would be nice for h in the help window to quit help.
   - It would be nice to be able to specify a preferred key to report in
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