Where do you customarily put the command? In the header part?
@c %**start of header @setfilename gungadin-elisp-abbrev.info @documentencoding UTF-8 @set Volume-1 @set Gela-Version 1.0 @set Emacs-Version 27.0 @set Date October 21, 2020. @c %**end of header Sent: Friday, October 16, 2020 at 3:54 PM From: "Gavin Smith" <[email protected]> To: "Christopher Dimech" <[email protected]> Cc: "help-texinfo gnu" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: @point{} Gntting a Star in Texinfo. On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 03:31:27PM +0200, Christopher Dimech wrote: > <html><head></head><body><div style="font-family: Verdana;font-size: > 12.0px;"><div>The manual says that</div> > > <div> </div> > > <div>The <code>@point{}</code> command is displayed as > ‘<samp>∗</samp>’, either a pointed star or (when that is > not available) the ASCII sequence ‘<samp>-!-</samp>’.</div> > > <div> </div> > > <div>I am getting ‘<samp>-!-</samp>’. How can I fix this so that > I get ‘<samp>∗</samp>’ a pointed star?</div> > > <div> </div> > > <div>Regards</div> > > <div>C*</div></div></body></html> > If this is for the Info output I think you need to have @documentencoding UTF-8 in the file.
