@H{a} becomes a'' and not á

Dumas Patrice <[email protected]> Thu, 16 Jan 2003 17:20:36 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.texi2html.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

Currently @H{a} is translated into &aacute;. I think it is bad
because it is not the same (there are 2 acute accents on the
corresponding TeX character), and because it leads to duplicated
node names if some node names differ only by that character from
a node with a real a acute @'a. I think that using a'' like in 
info file is better. I will do that change in cvs.

I wonder which language use that.

It seems that for latin1 all the characters have a corresponding
entity, and they are all righly handled (in cvs). For the 
non latin-1 characters, maybe a better aproach would be to 
translate these characters in the corresponding &#xxx; character
if the character is present in that document encoding.
For exemple, if @H{a} is in latin-8 the char 151, set 
@H{a} to &#151; if the document encoding is latin-8.

Pat