Re: multibyte characters in the Info reader

Gavin Smith <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.texinfo.bugs
Message-ID <aXXikX4zJwd2XVF6@orangestar>
On Fri, Jan 23, 2026 at 10:19:41AM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > The third argument to 'set_variable_to_value' is a priority level (the
> > lowest possible) which allows the user to override the value.
> 
> Thanks, this works very well, and the tests still all pass, both with
> and without activating this option, and both with UTF-8 and non-UTF-8
> encoding of the console output.
> 
> If you decide to install this, I think the manual needs to be updated
> to the effect that this variable is On by default when the Windows
> console's output encoding is UTF-8 (a.k.a. "codepage 65001").

I've committed this change and added to the manual as you suggest.
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