From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Typesetting non-ASCII names in Emacs manuals Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2011 22:19:11 +0800 Message-ID: <87wrk8e5r4.fsf@gnu.org> References: <834o7dh1k1.fsf@gnu.org> <831v2hh060.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1299680386 2487 80.91.229.12 (9 Mar 2011 14:19:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 14:19:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, karl@freefriends.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 09 15:19:41 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 1PxKEl-0005yx-1e for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2011 15:19:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34035 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PxKEk-0008Ug-9d for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2011 09:19:38 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=45033 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PxKEY-0008RO-7C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2011 09:19:28 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PxKEX-0000vh-0t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2011 09:19:26 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-yi0-f41.google.com ([209.85.218.41]:49221) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PxKEV-0000v7-C9; Wed, 09 Mar 2011 09:19:23 -0500 Original-Received: by yib2 with SMTP id 2so320213yib.0 for ; Wed, 09 Mar 2011 06:19:22 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:sender:from:to:cc:subject:references:date :in-reply-to:message-id:user-agent:mime-version:content-type; bh=qDl28iZW30IQ/ea7g96frJHNXUH6JWWQ0rNTBndILic=; b=f3kNWicR1KoiIXJMKwRdGfHOK75enSoPZbxqGQ2aGZMbwo8TGxA1tEnKZ39kMuyOiV kT2Xl5I7m6c8g1KuD1lVntBifPvvb9u61PuQH39By3tsUP5C4x75+l4yOvUXyM2wH6Xa 1nTyKQZa2dyQDSdl7OeWovagP4oLGaBBu5X6c= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=sender:from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id :user-agent:mime-version:content-type; b=bVipy/4NKl+q382X+ykzqn9PohRFANfrzLA6yXgRFpc/1uDgz+nK/oHAiwUR7ZHI6E OqmXbfUqff+DTSd4XJW7IyPYmWmI81mydx219n5dvaJLG4X6p0bfdrIvJ2lvG2X1Vra5 K1z818gT4SYmYxOR1ibT7+2M4Z5JtS6cHtxcs= Original-Received: by 10.90.195.11 with SMTP id s11mr8610324agf.161.1299680362374; Wed, 09 Mar 2011 06:19:22 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from home.jasonrumney.net ([180.72.114.254]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id w4sm2511353anw.36.2011.03.09.06.19.16 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 09 Mar 2011 06:19:19 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by home.jasonrumney.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D6E849D4; Wed, 9 Mar 2011 22:19:11 +0800 (MYT) In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 09 Mar 2011 03:45:17 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 209.85.218.41 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:136960 Archived-At: 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.