From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Typesetting non-ASCII names in Emacs manuals Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2011 16:32:22 +0200 Message-ID: <83d3m0pdop.fsf@gnu.org> References: <834o7dh1k1.fsf@gnu.org> <831v2hh060.fsf@gnu.org> <87wrk8e5r4.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1299681159 6987 80.91.229.12 (9 Mar 2011 14:32:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 14:32:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, karl@freefriends.org To: Jason Rumney Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 09 15:32:35 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PxKRH-0003sp-1S for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2011 15:32:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38630 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PxKRG-0008L5-BO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2011 09:32:34 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=52521 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PxKR8-0008K3-NI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2011 09:32:27 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PxKR7-0005ST-7h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2011 09:32:26 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout21.012.net.il ([80.179.55.169]:56137) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PxKR6-0005S0-Tn; Wed, 09 Mar 2011 09:32:25 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout21.012.net.il by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LHS00F00ODMAD00@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Wed, 09 Mar 2011 16:32:23 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.124.58.59]) by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LHS00FD1ODX0B30@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Wed, 09 Mar 2011 16:32:23 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <87wrk8e5r4.fsf@gnu.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 80.179.55.169 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:136962 Archived-At: > From: Jason Rumney > Cc: Glenn Morris , karl@freefriends.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2011 22:19:11 +0800 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > > A solution for the warning and -- more importantly -- for producing an > > Info file that doesn't render correctly (because it has no coding > > cookie, since makeinfo 4.8 didn't recognize the document encoding). > > > And if "a few odd characters" is not an issue, then why make this > > change at all? It was, after all, to fix "a few odd characters" in > > the names of some contributors, wasn't it? > > Surely the cost of an extra warning for old versions of makeinfo is > worth it if users of newer versions of makeinfo can have the "odd > character" problem fixed. How about the cost of seeing the names garbled (see above)?