[texinfo-pretest] accented letters....

[Karl Eichwalder]

"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz at gnu.org> writes:

> I don't see how that makes Texinfo any more unreadable than it already
> is, what with all those @code, @acronym, etc.

There is a difference - sure, it could be possible to display the
escaped sequences as 8bit characters on demand (as psgml can do it for
SGML entities).

> I think the issue at hand is how should Texinfo look _after_ it's
> preprocessed, not what machinery do we use to produce it.

I'd simply consider the preprocessed code as volatile; its only purpose
is to run texi2dvi, etc. on it.  This is how I have solved this issue
for a few German texts.