From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: guile 2.0.9 build on mingw Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:53:32 +0300 Message-ID: <83ip1aretv.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83sj1hv2ml.fsf@gnu.org> <874ndx9y7h.fsf@pobox.com> <83ip2bt4qk.fsf@gnu.org> <8761xqhyyt.fsf@gnu.org> <83li6mt18y.fsf@gnu.org> <83wqq3mcq9.fsf@gnu.org> <87k3m3kor5.fsf@gnu.org> <83ehcalysu.fsf@gnu.org> <87sj0pvl4a.fsf@tines.lan> <837gi1n3v5.fsf@gnu.org> <87k3m1vg8b.fsf@tines.lan> <83txl4lhby.fsf@gnu.org> <8361xjky0f.fsf@gnu.org> <87obb4eo5s.fsf@tines.lan> <834ncvs5i2.fsf@gnu.org> <83obb3qkql.fsf@gnu.org> <8738sftbni.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1371610417 27819 80.91.229.3 (19 Jun 2013 02:53:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:53:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-user@gnu.org To: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 19 04:53:37 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-user@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Up8We-0003i3-Qv for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:53:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57160 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Up8We-0002oW-F1 for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:53:36 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45791) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Up8WX-0002oO-AE for guile-user@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:53:30 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Up8WW-0000RY-BJ for guile-user@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:53:29 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:57501) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Up8WW-0000RO-3g; Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:53:28 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MOM00J00D81OA00@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:53:26 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MOM00JGKDD2N340@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:53:26 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <8738sftbni.fsf@gnu.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.175 X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:10471 Archived-At: > From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=C3=A8s) > Cc: guile-user@gnu.org > Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:19:13 +0200 >=20 > > 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= . >=20 > The problem is that the tarball comes with a .info file so that use= rs > don=E2=80=99t 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.