Re: guile 2.0.9 build on mingw

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
> Cc: guile-user@gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:19:13 +0200
> 
> > As long as we are on the topic of the Info docs: producing Info
> > manuals with UTF-8 encoded characters is not a good idea for the MinGW
> > build, because the Windows console does not support UTF-8, and so at
> > least the stand-alone Info reader will show a lot of garbage on
> > Windows.  I suggest to use --disable-encoding for the MinGW build.
> 
> The problem is that the tarball comes with a .info file so that users
> don’t need to have makeinfo installed (as per the GCS).

I know.  I didn't want to go as far as asking to not use UTF-8 in the
tarball as well (although given the lack of characters in the docs
that really need UTF-8, that would not be such a bad idea).  But at
least rebuilding docs could then DTRT.

> What about suggesting Windows users to use Emacs to view the
> documentation?  My feeling is that people aware of Info on Windows may
> already being doing this anyway.

I use both, FWIW.