On Sat, Nov 02, 2024 at 09:07:00PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > From: Gavin Smith <gavinsmith0...@gmail.com> > > Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2024 18:28:30 +0000 > > Cc: help-texinfo@gnu.org > > > > There are txi-ru.tex and txi-uk.tex files distributed with Texinfo > > for Russian and Ukranian translations respectively > > (added 2006-04-26, commit 6219630). (The Serbian translation uses > > the Latin alphabet.) However, I am not certain what character encoding > > they use. > > What I have on gnu.org is in KOI8-R.
Thanks for the confirmation. > > Running "iconv -f KOI8-R -t UTF-8 txi-ru.tex" and > > "iconv -f KOI8-U -t UTF-8 txi-uk.tex" produced plausible looking results. > > However, I do not know what if any support there has ever been for KOI8 > > in texinfo.tex, how or if these translation files were used and what > > extra patching may have been done at the time to make it possible. > > It should work: we use this to produce Emacs reference cards in > Russian. I'm sorry, I don't understand. Are you saying you use txi-ru.tex to produce Emacs reference cards in Russian? As far as I can tell we don't load any Cyrillic fonts in texinfo.tex so don't know how this is/was supposed to work.
