Bug#212549: info should support the "coding" local variable and output correct characters
On 2022-11-12 00:29:45 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> Version: 6.7.0.dfsg.2-6
>
> On 2022-11-11 23:57:19 +0100, Hilmar Preuße wrote:
> > Could you re-check with more recent version e.g. texinfo 7.0?
>
> I could check that this is fixed even in Debian 11.5 (current stable),
> e.g. on the old MPFR 2.2.0 info manual.
And this was apparently fixed upstream in Texinfo 6.0 (26 June 2015):
* info:
[...]
. if reading an Info file that is known to be in a different character
encoding to that of the user's environment, convert its contents
when displayed and substitute missing characters
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