Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org> skribis: >> 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.
Well that’s something Windows users can always do manually anyway. How could Guile’s build system be of any help? Ludo’.
