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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 3501@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: bug#3501: 23.0.94; Use Unicode in Info (?)
Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2009 23:42:09 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1MDsDx-0006BH-PP@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CEA3B46F10834364B599F19FC937AEFD@us.oracle.com> (drew.adams@oracle.com)

> From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 20:23:49 -0700
> 
> Whatever is already done is not sufficient in this regard, as indicated in the
> original report: I don't see composed characters; I see punctuation in the
> middle of people's names. I see J/orgensen, not Jørgensen.

Nothing is ``already done'' in the current Emacs.  Info files, at
least originally, were pure ASCII files by design, because Info
readers could not cope with non-ASCII characters.  If we want to
display such characters as their non-ASCII equivalents, we need to do
this in Emacs.

Personally, I don't like the idea of Emacs converting Info files for
display.  At the very least, it destroys the formatting of the text,
and at worst makes the text all but unreadable.  I think if it's so
important to us to have the names in their native scripts, we should
simply use UTF-8 in the Texinfo sources and use --enable-encoding when
we produce the Info files.





  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-09  3:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-08 21:58 bug#3501: 23.0.94; Use Unicode in Info (?) Drew Adams
2009-06-09  3:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-06-09  3:23   ` Drew Adams
2009-06-09  3:42     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2009-06-09  4:10       ` Drew Adams
2009-06-09 17:17     ` Alan Mackenzie
2009-06-09 17:43       ` Drew Adams
2009-06-09 18:17         ` Alan Mackenzie
2009-06-09 19:56           ` Drew Adams
2009-06-09 21:10             ` Alan Mackenzie
2009-06-09 21:31               ` Lennart Borgman
2009-06-09 22:48           ` Jason Rumney
2009-06-09 17:46       ` Lennart Borgman
2009-06-25 23:12 ` Stefan Monnier

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