Bug#555620: install-info: ginstall-info produces somehow broken utf-8 output
Package: install-info
Version: 4.13a.dfsg.1-5
Severity: normal
Using system locale de_DE.UTF-8 update-info-dir creates a somehow
broken dir file. This results in emacs info not recognizing the
encoding used and the standalone info browser displaying some bogus
characters.
How to reproduce:
- switch system locale
- run update-info-dir
- start info browser in emacs23 or standalong browser
output with emacs:
"File: dir, Node: Top Dies ist der Beginn des INFO-Baums
(dir)Top
Dieser Verzeichnis-Knoten zeigt ein Men\303\274 aller Hauptpunkte an.
...
* Gzip: (gzip). The gzip command for compressing files.
\240\227 B* Ada mode: (emacs-23/ada-mode).
"
Note: if I open the dir file in emacs manually (using find-file) it
does not recognize it as utf-8.
Where "Men\303\274" should be "Menü". For me it seems dir should be
encoded in utf-8 and for the most parts it looks alright. But some
entries are intermixed with bogus entries (see Gzip / Ada mode above).
Maybe this is caused by broken documentation?
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.31-1-amd64 (SMP w/3 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages install-info depends on:
ii libc6 2.10.1-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
install-info recommends no packages.
install-info suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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