warning: unrecognized encoding name `utf-8'.

[Karl Hammar]

$ LANG= makeinfo --output README.txt README.texi
README.texi:6: warning: unrecognized encoding name `utf-8'.
$

$ cat README.texi
\input texinfo @c -*-texinfo-*-
@setfilename README.info
@settitle Toplevel README

@documentencoding utf-8
@documentlanguage en

@node Top
@top

@chapter Toplevel README

Hello
@bye
$

$ head `kpsewhich texinfo.tex`
% texinfo.tex -- TeX macros to handle Texinfo files.
%
% Load plain if necessary, i.e., if running under initex.
\expandafter\ifx\csname fmtname\endcsname\relax\input plain\fi
%
\def\texinfoversion{2006-12-30.10}
%
% Copyright (C) 1985, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995,
% 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 Free
% Software Foundation, Inc.
$ makeinfo --version | head -1
makeinfo (GNU texinfo) 4.8.90
$

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Regards,
/Karl

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