Re: handling of different encodings

> There is one good reason to have the code detect at run time though - we
> would no longer be able to distribute an architecture independant
> version of the script.  It would have to be built on each platform or at
> least we would have to distribute two versions, but as things stand we
> almost have to do that anyhow.

We can still distribute the script with no handling of encodings. It is
the most generic one. 

Anyway there are much more possibilities if the init files distributed with
texi2html are used, thus distributing the script is likely to be suboptimal.

Pat