Wrapping lines and counting characters

[Alexander E. Patrakov]

Hello,

texinfo-4.8 has a problem with its line wrapping code. In multibyte 
locales, the line (usually the output from "man") can be wrapped 
prematurely, or even broken between bytes that form a multibyte 
character. Breaking a line in the middle of a multibyte character is a 
grave bug.

Also, in these locales, there is excessive whitespace between the search 
prompt and the place where the user enters the text to search for.

Both problems are described in more detail (with screenshots, taken as 
"info xmlwf") at 
http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/lfs-dev/2005-August/052947.html.

LFS still uses this patch: 
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/development/texinfo-4.8-multibyte-1.patch 
, which simply disables i18n completely if info can't count characters 
properly, and makes sure that non-ASCII characters from Man don't reach 
info in such cases. Please accept this (very suboptimal) patch, or 
develop a better solution.

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Alexander E. Patrakov