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

[Gavin Smith]

On 6 June 2015 at 23:25, Karl Berry <address@hidden> wrote:
> Not that that particular case has anything to do with the general
> problem, of course.  I've been bothered with such cases off and on, but
> I don't think there is any general solution.  It is a fact that manuals
> often have the same name as their principal utility, and thus some level
> of confusion seems inevitable to me.  I can imagine other matching
> algorithms, but I suspect that any change here would simply cause
> trouble rather than solve it.
>

Autoconf has two dir entries the last time I checked. "info autoconf"
goes to the Top node, and "info autoconf-invocation" goes to the
program invocation node. This seems like a good solution. I don't see
that it can be fixed in the Info reader with a different matching
algorithm.