bug#38722: 27.0.50; bad position of character encoding declaration in the HTML version of manuals

[Jean-Christophe Helary]

> On Dec 25, 2019, at 19:14, Gavin Smith <gavinsmith0123@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Dec 23, 2019 at 06:32:55PM +0900, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote:
>> According to the W3C internationalization activity, the character encoding 
>> declaration must be fully included in the first 1024 bits of the HTML page:
>> 
>> https://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-html-encoding-declarations
>> 
>> The current declaration falls short of that by about 30 bits because of the 
>> 871 characters long comment describing the contents to the file which could 
>> be put right after the declaration.
> 
> You mean 1024 bytes.

Apologies. Yes. That's what I mean.

> We attempted to fix this issue before but apparently it is not enough.  
> If the copying statement is too long, then the encoding declaration will 
> be too late.
> 
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2017-08/msg00014.html
> 
> I've attempted to fix it in commit 749dcd4a5.  Thanks for the report.

Ok, I guess you've checked the output on your side already. I'll do the same 
when I can checkout/build the code. Thank you very much.

Jean-Christophe Helary
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