Re: [PATCH pkgs] Texinfo 5.x fixes, etc.

Jerry James writes:

 > Ah, so it turns out that my version of texi2html is actually "texi2any
 > --html" in disguise from the texinfo 5.1 distribution.  It probably
 > behaves quite differently from the (apparently obsolete) "real"
 > texi2html.

Yes it does, and yes it's obsolete.  We should make that clear in our
requirements since texi2any --html does a better job -- I don't think
it's worth trying to support older texi2html.  Better to spend the
effort on providing those files in HTML on the website.

 > On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 12:57 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull
 > <[email protected]> wrote:

 > > I'll see if I can clean a few of these up but it will take a couple
 > > days before I can get to that.
 > 
 > If you would rather spend your time on moving services to the new
 > server, I can try to look at this.

Sounds good.  FWIW, my approach to texi2html for the Japanese .texi
files is "iconv -t utf-8 -f iso-2022-jp".  For now, please do that on
the fly, and leave the files in their original ISO 2022 encoding.  I
need to think whether there's any real downside to just converting
those files to UTF-8 (probably not enough to prevent it, but XEmacs
21.4 can't handle UTF-8 without Mule-UCS).

Steve