Re: makeinfo with utf-8 support

[Karl Hammar]

> address@hidden:
> > Le jeudi 04 janvier 2007 à 00:33 +0100, Karl Hammar a écrit :
> > > Hmm, when building I get:
> > > 
> > >  out/lilypond.nexi:62: warning: unrecognized encoding name `utf-8'.
> ...
> > > Does anybody know where the makeinfo with utf-8 support is, a patch ?
> > 
> > AFAIK Texinfo does no character encoding conversion for the Info and
> > HTML output, so the LilyPond devels have decided to use the modern
> > character set UTF-8, not Latin1. This will really become a problem for
> > the PDF (outputted by Texinfo/TeX) when we decide to make PDF of Lily
> > docs translation.
> > 
> > Well, you can safely ignore these warnings.
> > 
> > See also 
> > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2007-01/msg00047.html
> 
> Tried cvs version [1] of texinfo/makeinfo
> 
>   $ makeinfo --version
>   makeinfo (GNU texinfo) 4.8.90
> 
> But the warning persist. Well, never mind.
> 
> Regards
> /Karl
> 
> [1] http://savannah.gnu.org/cvs/?group=texinfo

This is fixed in latest texinfo cvs:

Karl Berry:
> I just added UTF-8 to the list of encoding names recognized by makeinfo
> (from CVS).  It just passes through the bytes as they are received,
> which hopefully will be better than nothing.  I can't undertake to
> actually parse UTF-8 at this point (I added it to the TODO file :).
>
> Thanks,
> Karl

Regards
/Karl