Re: generating Info encoded in UTF-8 only
Per Bothner <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.tex.texinfo.bugs |
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On 8/14/26 07:54, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > I understand why supporting only UTF-8 is easier. What I don't > understand is how will we justify the removal of a useful feature just > because it's harder to support. I don't understand why handling non-UTF-8 info files a useful feature. Note that info is a *binary* file format, it is not technically a text file format. Info files are meant to be read by a specialized info-reading application, not a generic editor or file viewer, unless that application has specific info support. As such, support for non-UTF-8 encodings in the strings contained in an info file is a useless complication. (As I've said many times, the info file format should be phased out and replaced by html.) -- --Per Bothner [email protected] http://per.bothner.com/