Re: generating Info encoded in UTF-8 only

Patrice Dumas <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.texinfo.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, Aug 14, 2026 at 02:07:10PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2026 10:11:46 +0200
> > From: Patrice Dumas <[email protected]>
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I propose to generate Info encoded in UTF-8 only from texi2any.
> 
> I'm not sure I understand what are the alternatives.  Can you spell
> them out?

The alternative would be, as of today
* to use the @documentencoding
* to take into account OUTPUT_ENCODING_NAME to override the output
  encoding

> I also don't think I understand fully what you mean by "generate Info
> encoded in UTF-8".  Surely, the encoding of the Info file depends on
> @documentencoding, doesn't it?  Or what am I missing?

Right now, this is the case, but my proposal is to generate the Info
file encoded in UTF-8 irrespective of the @documentencoding or
OUTPUT_ENCODING_NAME.

(as a side note, for the LaTeX output we ignore the @documentencoding
but respect OUTPUT_ENCODING_NAME).

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Pat
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