Bug#577741: non-breaking space char incorrectly handled by texi2dvi

[Tong Sun <suntong@cpan.org>]

Package: texinfo
Version: 4.13a.dfsg.1-5
Severity: normal

Re-posting the problem reported at
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.text.tex/msg/1e16b0e5d5901266

I.e., the non-breaking space is not honoured but shown in the output
instead. Details:

I can see the actual '~' in the output with the following minimal document.

$ cat test-space.tex
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
 \begin{tabular}{
  |c|c|c|c|c|c|c| } \hline
    Sun ~ & ~ Mon ~ & ~ Tue ~ & ~ Wed ~ & ~ Thu ~ & ~ Fri ~ & ~ Sat
\\
\hline
  ~ & ~ & ~ &  &  &  & \\ \hline
 \end{tabular}
\end{document}

The result is here:
http://imagebin.ca/view/HZOqdXG.html

This is how I compile and view it.

 texi2dvi -q -o test-space.dvi test-space.tex
 xdvi test-space.dvi &

If I compile with latex, then it is normal:

 latex test-space
 xdvi test-space.dvi &

Please investigate. 

Thanks

PS. These are my latex packges (under Debian testing):

 tex-common_2.07
 texinfo_4.13a.dfsg.1-5
 texlive-base_2009-8
 texlive-base-bin_2007.dfsg.2-8
 texlive-binaries_2009-5
 texlive-common_2009-8
 texlive-doc-base_2009-2
 texlive-font-utils_2009-7
 texlive-fonts-extra_2009-7
 texlive-fonts-recommended_2009-8
 texlive-generic-recommended_2009-8
 texlive-latex-base_2009-8
 texlive-latex-extra_2009-7
 texlive-latex-recommended_2009-8
 texlive-pictures_2009-8
 texlive-pstricks_2009-7 

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (300, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.28-grml64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages texinfo depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.10.2-6   Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib

texinfo recommends no packages.

Versions of packages texinfo suggests:
pn  texinfo-doc-nonfree           <none>     (no description available)
ii  texlive-base                  2009-8     TeX Live: Essential programs and f
ii  texlive-generic-recommended   2009-8     TeX Live: Recommended generic pack
ii  texlive-latex-base            2009-8     TeX Live: Basic LaTeX packages

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