Re: international documentation

[Karl Berry]

    However, I'm not sure this is all you need.  An 8-bit version of TeX is 
    probably required.  Anybody?

TeX itself handles 8-bit characters fine, that's not the problem.

The problem is the fonts and the macros.  LaTeX has zillions of packages
for supporting languages beyond vanilla English, nothing comparable
exists for Texinfo.