Re: [Texi2html-bug] Problems with texi2html and Japanese navigation bars

[Patrice Dumas]

On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 05:42:45PM -0600, Karl Berry wrote:
>     The thing is that the translations are inserted as utf-8 into the program 
>     code, so perl needs to interpret the whole script as utf8
> 
> Are all the translations UTF-8?

Only the japanese one is. The other are in plain texi, with accents 
as @-commands:
'Contents' => 'Table des address@hidden',

> They certainly aren't in the gettext translations of makeinfo, which I
> hoped we would be able to reuse, by changing the strings in texi2html ...

I hope too. But currently in texi2html there aren't too many translations
since no error messages are translated, only the document strings.

>     the console is set to utf8 by default
> 
> But not all consoles are set that way, by a long shot.  So it's not
> anything that can be relied on ...

I guess it is 'gettext-like' work to figure out the console encoding,
once it is in use.

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Pat