Re: [help-texinfo] Umlaut strangeness

[Karl Berry]

    I've done some work on this and have made some progress, managed to
    output this sequence when generating a PDF bookmark

Wow, that's great.

    ! pdfTeX warning (dest):name{FE FF 00 DCbersicht 2} has been
    referenced but does not exist, replaced by a fixed one

Argh.  pdftex is just trying to match strings.  Can the bookmark display
name (Unicode) be separated from the destination (= node name, in
whatever format it is)?

    grep to think it is a binary file, 

That binary/text stuff for grep "helpfully" invented a few years ago is
so frustrating.  As far as I know the only way to force it is to supply
--text, and that only works with GNU grep, so that would then have to be
tested for.  Double argh.

It seems to me in principle that a few Unicode characters should not
cause grep to think the file is binary, but even if that got (or has
been) fixed, the script will still have to deal with existing bad grep
behavior.  Sigh.

    I haven't looked at it in detail but  it seems the PDFDocEncoding has
    characters at values 80-9F, which are missing from Latin-1 

Sounds right ... -k