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From: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, karl@freefriends.org
Subject: Re: Typesetting non-ASCII names in Emacs manuals
Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2011 22:19:11 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wrk8e5r4.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1PxF1B-0007Pd-SG@fencepost.gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 09 Mar 2011 03:45:17 -0500")

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> 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.




  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-03-09 14:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <E1Pwt3K-0000qp-1y@eggs.gnu.org>
2011-03-08  9:36 ` Emacs-diffs Digest, Vol 100, Issue 28 Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-08 17:43   ` Glenn Morris
2011-03-08 23:14     ` Karl Berry
2011-03-09  6:12       ` Typesetting non-ASCII names in Emacs manuals (was: Emacs-diffs Digest, Vol 100, Issue 28) Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-09  7:57       ` Emacs-diffs Digest, Vol 100, Issue 28 Glenn Morris
2011-03-09  8:56         ` Typesetting non-ASCII names in Emacs manuals Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-09 18:24           ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-08 18:50   ` Emacs-diffs Digest, Vol 100, Issue 28 Glenn Morris
2011-03-08 19:09     ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-08 19:19       ` Glenn Morris
2011-03-08 19:39         ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-09  8:03           ` Glenn Morris
2011-03-09  8:45             ` Typesetting non-ASCII names in Emacs manuals Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-09 10:19               ` Andreas Schwab
2011-03-09 10:32                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-09 10:34                   ` Andreas Schwab
2011-03-09 10:50                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-09 14:19               ` Jason Rumney [this message]
2011-03-09 14:32                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-09 18:26                   ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-09 15:15                 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-03-09 15:15                   ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-03-09 15:21                   ` Jason Rumney
2011-03-09 15:28                     ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-03-09 15:49                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-09 17:02               ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-09 19:43                 ` Glenn Morris
2011-03-09 20:07                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-09 20:19                     ` Glenn Morris
2011-03-09 20:44                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-09 21:02                         ` Glenn Morris
2011-03-10  5:52                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-09 11:49             ` Emacs-diffs Digest, Vol 100, Issue 28 Juanma Barranquero
2011-03-09 19:35               ` Glenn Morris
2011-03-09 19:48                 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-03-08 23:32         ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-03-10  3:40           ` Jason Rumney
2011-03-10  4:04             ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-03-10  4:07             ` Eli Zaretskii

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