Re: Texinfo 7.0.93 pretest available

[Bruno Haible]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> I think we should first explore a better
> alternative: use UTF-8 functions everywhere, without relying on the
> locale-aware functions of libc, such as wcwidth.  For example, instead
> of wcwidth, we could use uc_width.
> 
> Is it feasible to use UTF-8 in texi2any disregarding the locale, and
> use libunistring or something similar for the few functions we need in
> the extensions that are required to deal with non-ASCII characters?
> If we can do that, it will work on all systems, including Windows.

+1

Bruno