Changeset fa21b3d for chapter06/texinfo.xml

Timestamp:

01/06/2006 01:59:08 AM (18 years ago)

Author:

Jeremy Huntwork <jhuntwork@…>

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Children:

abf1f62

Parents:

60e34b5

Message:

Initial support of UTF-8. Thanks Alexander Patrakov.

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@7245 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

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• chapter06/texinfo.xml (modified) (2 diffs)

chapter06/texinfo.xml

@@ -29 +29 @@
 <sect2 role="installation">
 <title>Installation of Texinfo</title>
+
+<para>The <command>info</command> program makes assumptions such as that
+a string occupies the same number of character cells on the screen and bytes
+in memory and that one can break the string anywhere, which fail in
+UTF-8 based locales. The patch below makes them valid
+by falling back to English messages when a multibyte locale is in use:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&texinfo-multibyte-patch;</userinput></screen>
 
 <para>Texinfo allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink
@@ -64 +72 @@
 </varlistentry>
 </variablelist>
+<!-- FIXME: doesn't the TeX installation in BLFS overwrite files there? -->
 
 <para>The Info documentation system uses a plain text file to hold its