Re: Bug#779885: info: Does not display a info-file from the start, if it contains (some) multibyte characters

[Norbert Preining]

Dear texinfo team,

down here at Debian we got a bug report concerning 5.2, but I can
confirm that the same happens with 5.9.92.

The mentioned case about coreutils is a bit particular, as there
are so many entries, but
        info wdiff
also jumps into the Invocation instead of top of wdiff.

We are updating the dir file by looping over all info files and call
        install-info "$file" "$INFODIR/dir"

I attach the gzipped version of the dir file on my system.

Additionally, it is interesting that the transformation to latin1
changes something.

All the best

Norbert

On Thu, 05 Mar 2015, Bjarni Ingi Gislason wrote:
> Package: info
> Version: 5.2.0.dfsg.1-6
> Severity: normal
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
>    * What led up to the situation?
> 
>   Issuing command "info coreutils".
> 
>    * What was the outcome of this action?
> 
>   Output from "info coreutils" begins with chapter 2.14.
> 
>   Output from "info wdiff" begins with chapter 2.1.
> 
>   Display is normal, if the info-files have been transformed to latin-1 (8
> bit single byte) encoding before they are used.
> 
>   Using "info coreutils | iconv -f utf-8 -t latin1//TRANSLIT" does only
> show chapter 2.14.
> 
>   "info wdiff | iconv -f utf-8 -t latin1//TRANSLIT" does only show
> chapter 2.1.
> 

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