Bug#555620: install-info: ginstall-info produces somehow broken utf-8 output

[Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>]

On Mi, 11 Nov 2009, Jens Thiele wrote:
> attached the dir file
> karme@kallisto:/tmp/files$ md5sum /usr/share/info/dir
> ac71bfdfdf2a98c8bf8c61bd8f2fffc4  /usr/share/info/dir

Thanks, arrived intact.

Ok, the problem is really with the two strangely garbled entries.

When you remove the Ada mode and maplev entries the info file is
suddenly recognized as utf8 and everything works.

Hmmm, that is strange. Calling
	ginstall-info /usr/share/info/emacs-23/ada-mode.gz ./dir
adds a proper entry.

Can it be that the dir file was somehow hosed?

Can you run (as root)
	mv /usr/share/info/dir /usr/share/info/dir.saved
	update-info-dir 
and check whether the created dir file is again broken?

And if yes, can you send me *your* copy of ada-mode.gz from the info 
directory/emacs-23?

Best wishes

Norbert

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