4.13.96: incorrect error message

[Thien-Thi Nguyen]

With an input file ixin.texi that has the (incorrect) line 545:

 @fonttextsize 42

and env var ‘LANG’ having the value ‘it_IT.UTF-8’, the command:

 $ /tmp/a/b/c/bin/makeinfo -o ixin.xml --xml --no-split ixin.texi > BAD-$LANG 
2>&1

produces the file BAD-it_IT.UTF-8, attached here:

BAD-it_IT.UTF-8
Description: Binary data

which looks funny and is incorrect -- i don't know what the "proper"
quotes (around 42) should be, but certainly the first part of the
message should read something like:

 Solo @fonttextsize "10" o "11" è supportata
                                ^

(The indicated word/character is U+E8, LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH GRAVE.)
In contrast, the output when env var ‘LANG’ has value ‘C’ is:

BAD-C
Description: Binary data

NB: I also tried both of the above commands w/ dir /tmp/a/b/c/bin
appearing in env var ‘PATH’.  It doesn't change anything.  Is this a
bug?

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