Re: Typesetting non-ASCII names in Emacs manuals

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Jason Rumney <address@hidden>
> Cc: Glenn Morris <address@hidden>,  address@hidden,  address@hidden
> Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2011 22:19:11 +0800
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > A solution for the warning and -- more importantly -- for producing an
> > Info file that doesn't render correctly (because it has no coding
> > cookie, since makeinfo 4.8 didn't recognize the document encoding).
> 
> > And if "a few odd characters" is not an issue, then why make this
> > change at all?  It was, after all, to fix "a few odd characters" in
> > the names of some contributors, wasn't it?
> 
> Surely the cost of an extra warning for old versions of makeinfo is
> worth it if users of newer versions of makeinfo can have the "odd
> character" problem fixed.

How about the cost of seeing the names garbled (see above)?