Perhaps I'm confused: if Texinfo commands are not the recommended
way,
The Texinfo commands aren't unrecommended either. Both ways have their
advantages -- it depends on the document. That's why we support both.
then why do we have them? why not tell users to always use
literal non-ASCII characters?
Because there are many, many cases where the document is 99+% English,
representable in 7-bit ASCII, but a few special characters and/or
accented letters are needed. It would be horrible to force users into
the whole encoding madness just for that.
On the other hand, for a whole document written in Polish or whatever,
it is exceedingly painful to have to resort to the accent commands; it
makes the source nearly unreadable. That's when having the 8-bit chars
is useful.
Things have been this way for decades. It's not going to change.
Anyway, back to the suggestion at hand: fine, I will make the
--enable-encoding behavior the default when @documentencoding is
specified in the upcoming release. I hope it helps.
karl
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