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Re: guile 2.0.9 build on mingw
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: guile 2.0.9 build on mingw |
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Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:28:19 +0200 |
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Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> skribis:
>> From: address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès)
>> Cc: address@hidden
>> Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:19:13 +0200
>>
>> > As long as we are on the topic of the Info docs: producing Info
>> > manuals with UTF-8 encoded characters is not a good idea for the MinGW
>> > build, because the Windows console does not support UTF-8, and so at
>> > least the stand-alone Info reader will show a lot of garbage on
>> > Windows. I suggest to use --disable-encoding for the MinGW build.
>>
>> The problem is that the tarball comes with a .info file so that users
>> don’t need to have makeinfo installed (as per the GCS).
>
> I know. I didn't want to go as far as asking to not use UTF-8 in the
> tarball as well (although given the lack of characters in the docs
> that really need UTF-8, that would not be such a bad idea). But at
> least rebuilding docs could then DTRT.
Well that’s something Windows users can always do manually anyway. How
could Guile’s build system be of any help?
Ludo’.
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