On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 05:46:32PM -0800, Per Bothner wrote: > > A related question: how does/should makeinfo+info handle non-ascii > characters in the source? For example if I'm writing documentation > in Norwegian. Is the info output supposed to be locale-specific? > That seems in principle wrong, though in practice we may be stuck.
In addition to the encoding issue, some strings output in Info files are locale-dependent, using @documentlanguage (there are only few of such strings). The Info language itself is not locale-dependent. As a side note, I would say that there is a bias towards english based text files formatting in the Info format definition. Indeed, using * node:: for menu has certainly some roots in english typography, in french it would have been - node:: and the Info format is implicitly left to right top to bottom... -- Pat
