Texinfo: Can I write non-english info files? Such as Chinese, and how

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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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To convert every man page to pdf I did man -k . > temp. I created a temp file and a script named file.sh:

#! /bin/bash
if [ $# -eq 1 ] ; then
    to_pdf=$(which ps2pdf)
    if [ -z "$to_pdf" ] ; then
    to_pdf=$(which pstopdf)
    fi
    name="$1"
    case "$to_pdf"  in
        *pstopdf) man -t "$name" | "$to_pdf" -i -o "$fname.pdf" ;;
        *ps2pdf)  man -t "$name" | "$to_pdf" - "$name.pdf" ;;
        *)        man -t "$name" > "$fname.ps"
    esac
    exit $?
fi
echo "Wrong number of parameters"
exit 1

I wrote a python file pythonfile.py

import os
f=open("temp","r")
for i in f:
    c="bash file.sh "+str(i)
    os.system(c)`

Then I did

python pythonfile.py

This will create a pdf for every man page separately inside your working directory.

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