Re: [help-texinfo] Non ascii to pdf.

[tomas]

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On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 02:42:45PM -0800, Karl Berry wrote:
> texinfo.tex simply does not support Cyrillic, or CJK or Arabic or
> anything much besides Latin-based scripts -- and not all of those.
> I'm sure I wrote this in the documentation.

There are some remnants of attempts at doing it, though. For example, on
my box (some pretty vanilla-ish Debian GNU/Linux) there are a few files
like:

  /usr/share/texmf/tex/texinfo/txi-ru.tex

with translations of the standard Texinfo "vocabulary" (things like
"Appendix", "Chapter", "page", etc.) in them. The one specific example
above seems to be KOI8-R encoded (an one-byte encoding).

So there seems to be a (possibly forgotten) path through old
texi2{dvi,pdf} land? Of course this would be still limited to pairs of
languages which fit into both halves of 8-bit encoding -- so at least no
CJK, or no Cyrillic plus German...

> Realistically, the way this situation will improve is when we have a
> latex backend for the new makeinfo (already a high priority).  That
> won't be real soon, but it should happen in time.

Is there any way one might help (with limited time)?

Thanks, regards
- -- tomás
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