On Sat, 5 Jan 2002, Frank Heckenbach wrote:
Mirsad Todorovac wrote:
You probably remember me having problems with iso-8859-2 (Latin 2) charset when translating GNU Pascal documentation to Croatian.
If you are doing something similar to some other languages which require 8-bit (above first 127) characters, I've noticed some problems with the way GNU 'info' displays menu items that contain them - GNU 'info' shifts the "hotspots" of every menu item bellow first such character by one line, so you have to select a line bellow an item to select that item.
I'm not to proud with the way I coped with this, since I had to leave those menu items in English, and translate them on the right side in description part (where 8-bit chars are treated correctly).
Any better ideas?
Well, GNU info is only one info reader. There are many others (Emacs, RHIDE, PENG, ...). A documentation file should not be messed because of the bugs in one program, I think. So my suggestion is: Report the bug to the info maintainers, and ignore it otherwise. People wanting to read the documentation will have to get an updated info (once the bug is fixed), or use another reader, or just live with it (it's not a fatal bug after all).
1. I have filed a bug report to bug-texinfo@gnu.org, but they couldn't reproduce the bug ... The follow-up to that discussion is I guess off-topic on this list ...
2. I have removed CR's from all texinfo files, and I guess I'll have to watch about FTP's ascii/binary mode better :-)
So, this is conclusion: CTRL-M's in texinfo files are *evil*!!!
Mirsad
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