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Re: info readers


From: Bruno Haible
Subject: Re: info readers
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 00:53:22 +0100
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Karl Berry wrote:
>       - .info output when viewed by the 'info' program in a UTF-8 locale.
> 
> Just for the record, Emacs Info is a much more important/widespread
> reader than standalone Info.

Well, can you please give me a hint how to use it? I tried to view the
generated doc/gnulib.info file like this:

  $ emacs doc/gnulib.info
  M-x info

but that opens up a different buffer, whereas I wanted to change the
gnulib.info buffer from fundamental-mode to info-mode.

> Personally, I find using any non-7-bit ASCII character when not
> absolutely necessary is simply a pain agent.

I've been working on changing that for 12 years. UTF-8 locales are
the majority of locales on Linux systems for ca. 7 years now. Here
the use of a non-ASCII character (the no-break space) will be a
significant benefit for readability of the .texi files and for
interoperability with other programs. It's time to use it.

Bruno
-- 
In memoriam Robert Blum <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Blum>



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