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.)
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