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



On 10.11.09 14:40, karme wrote:

Hi Jens,

https://bugs.debian.org/555620

Is the issue still reproducible in latest texinfo? Please note that the
maplev info still is meanwhile fixed, so one need to copy the sample
from the bug report for reproduction.

Hilmar

> 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?
> 

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