Bug#1022789: texinfo: UTF-8 is not the default input encoding
Package: texinfo
Version: 6.8-6+b1
Severity: normal
/usr/share/doc/texinfo/NEWS.gz says
. UTF-8 is the default input encoding
but this is not true in Debian.
For instance,
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\input texinfo @c -*-texinfo-*-
@documentencoding UTF-8
@node Top
@node Test
@minus{}
@bye
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compiled with makeinfo gives U+2212 MINUS SIGN, but
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\input texinfo @c -*-texinfo-*-
@node Top
@node Test
@minus{}
@bye
------------------------------------------------------------
gives U+002D HYPHEN-MINUS.
Since UTF-8 is supposed to be the default input encoding,
whether "@documentencoding UTF-8" is present or not should
not make any difference.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
APT prefers unstable-debug
APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
merged-usr: no
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 6.0.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages texinfo depends on:
ii libc6 2.35-1
ii libtext-unidecode-perl 1.30-3
ii libxml-libxml-perl 2.0207+dfsg+really+2.0134-1+b1
ii perl 5.36.0-4
ii perl-base [perlapi-5.36.0] 5.36.0-4
ii tex-common 6.18
texinfo recommends no packages.
Versions of packages texinfo suggests:
ii texlive-base 2022.20220923-1
ii texlive-fonts-recommended 2022.20220923-1
ii texlive-latex-base 2022.20220923-1
ii texlive-plain-generic 2022.20220923-2
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