Texinfo file encodings

I'm looking at how to get readable output from texi2any --html, by hooking iconv into the pipeline. We have some ... interesting ... encoding situations. For example, in mule-packages/mule-base/texi, we have several files encoded with ISO-2022-JP, but canna-jp.texi appears to be encoded with EUC-JP, and languages.texi appears to contain multiple encodings (e.g., ISO-2022-JP-2 on line 96, something I haven't been able to figure out on line 97, ISO-2022-KR on lines 461-465, etc.). I tried to look at some of the info files with XEmacs, and found that the info files did not survive being processed by makeinfo. The texi files show non-ASCII character okay when opened with XEmacs, but the info files just show ASCII garbage. (Raw ISO-2022 sequences maybe?) Do others of you see that? Try looking at the skk or mule-base info files. I wonder if this is because modern Linux distributions default to UTF-8 as the encoding for everything. I'm not sure how to handle this. Any suggestions on how to proceed would be much appreciated. By the way, when I couldn't figure out an encoding, I did this: for enc in $(iconv -l); do echo -n "${enc%//}: " sed -n 97 languages.texi | iconv -f ${enc%//} -t utf-8 done and looked for output that didn't contain complaints about bad byte sequences and that looked like it might reasonably be correct. (I have unifont installed, so all valid Unicode characters should be displayable, if ugly.) Even with this approach, line 97 of mule-base/texi/langauges.texi remains a mystery to me. -- Jerry James http://www.jamezone.org/ _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://lists.xemacs.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta