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Most gnu manual files use info, write a texinfo then makeinfo produces info files, it's great.

Can texinfo contain non-English characters then produce non-English infos or pdfs?

How can I write Chinese info manuals? What is the best solutions for non-English software manuals, documentations just one source files to info, man, html, and pdf.

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Sphinx can build into all of these format using special builders.

The input format is UTF-8, so Chinese should be OK (I have only used French and Spanish non-ASCII characters).

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You can write texinfo file in chinese by UTF-8 encoding. In this case, you should set @documentencoding variable to UTF-8. For more detail, please read texinfo manual.

I download latest texinfo-5.2.tar.xz from GNU site. This includes some files for testing. And in these file, tp/t/input_files/japanese_utf8.texi is written in Japanese using UTF-8 encoding was succesfully converted to info, and html format in Japanese.

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