> From: l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) > Cc: guile-user@gnu.org > Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:19:13 +0200 > > > As long as we are on the topic of the Info docs: producing Info > > manuals with UTF-8 encoded characters is not a good idea for the MinGW > > build, because the Windows console does not support UTF-8, and so at > > least the stand-alone Info reader will show a lot of garbage on > > Windows. I suggest to use --disable-encoding for the MinGW build. > > The problem is that the tarball comes with a .info file so that users > don’t need to have makeinfo installed (as per the GCS).
I know. I didn't want to go as far as asking to not use UTF-8 in the tarball as well (although given the lack of characters in the docs that really need UTF-8, that would not be such a bad idea). But at least rebuilding docs could then DTRT. > What about suggesting Windows users to use Emacs to view the > documentation? My feeling is that people aware of Info on Windows may > already being doing this anyway. I use both, FWIW.
