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



Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> writes:

> On Di, 10 Nov 2009, karme wrote:
>> Using system locale de_DE.UTF-8 update-info-dir creates a somehow
>> broken dir file. This results in emacs info not recognizing the
>
> Hmm, that is bad.
>
>> encoding used and the standalone info browser displaying some bogus
>> characters.
>
> Even worse. I recently introduced the behaviour to read /etc/environment
> and (not released) /etc/default/locale.

Yes, I have seen that one in #536476 and first thought that would be my
problem, too. But then again I am fine with a translated dir
file. Though on the other hand nearly no info documentation is
translated¹ and I don't know wether there is any mechanism in place to
handle translated documentation.

> What is written in those file on your system?

/etc/environment is empty
karme@kallisto:~$ cat /etc/default/locale 
#  File generated by update-locale
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8

> Can you send me your dir file (but packed in some way, so that the mailer
> does not play with the encoding). If you prefer also with personal email.
> Thanks

attached the dir file
karme@kallisto:/tmp/files$ md5sum /usr/share/info/dir
ac71bfdfdf2a98c8bf8c61bd8f2fffc4  /usr/share/info/dir

If it gets garbled, i can send it in a tar file again.
(just tested it out of curiosity and it should work as is)

Greetings

¹ gauche-doc being the only one I am aware off, it includes two info
documents, one english and one japenese

Attachment: dir
Description: /usr/share/info/dir


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