Re: Displaying characters in user's locale

2014-02-02 Thread Andreas Schwab
k...@freefriends.org (Karl Berry) writes: > All I can think of to base the default on the current locale, because > that's the only information we've got about what the user desires. > E.g., if the locale is "C" (or, equivalently, "POSIX", of course), the > target should be plain 7-bit ASCII. If

Re: Displaying characters in user's locale

2014-02-02 Thread Karl Berry
To work the iconv module needs to be added from gnulib. I'll do that after the paperwork has gone through. (And after Sergey has had a chance to review in detail.) * Default encoding is set as UTF-8 - decide whether this is desired That would defeat the whole purpose, it seems to me. Ce

Re: Displaying characters in user's locale

2014-02-02 Thread Karl Berry
-@item ISO-8859-2 @itemx ISO-8859-1 @itemx ISO-8859-15 +@item ISO-8859-2 Yes, thanks Reinhard. I will fix (modulo itemx/item :). k

Re: Displaying characters in user's locale

2014-02-02 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> From: Reinhard Kotucha > Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2014 19:32:24 +0100 > Cc: Eli Zaretskii , > bug-texinfo@gnu.org, > Karl Berry > > -@item ISO-8859-2 > @itemx ISO-8859-1 > @itemx ISO-8859-15 > +@item ISO-8859-2 This will cause makeinfo to barf: @item should be the 1st item in the list, all

Re: Displaying characters in user's locale

2014-02-02 Thread Reinhard Kotucha
On 2014-02-01 at 15:21:51 +, Gavin Smith wrote: > I've listed all the ones listed in the texinfo manual > (http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/manual/texinfo/html_node/_0040documentencoding.html#g_t_0040documentencoding). Hi, a bit off-topic maybe, but there is a little bug in the section

Re: Displaying characters in user's locale

2014-02-02 Thread Gavin Smith
On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 8:11 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 21:33:39 + >> From: Gavin Smith >> Cc: Karl Berry , bug-texinfo@gnu.org >> >> I've attached a patch which uses iconv as you suggested. I've tested >> it with the two files attached under both utf-8 and iso8859-1 lo