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

[Assaf Gordon]

Hello,

On 06/06/2015 06:13 AM, Gavin Smith wrote:
> Looking at the dir file you attached, there are the following entries:
>
> * Coreutils: (coreutils).       Core GNU (file, text, shell) utilities.
> * coreutils: (coreutils)coreutils invocation.   Multi-call program.
>
> The two labels are "Coreutils" and "coreutils". Info prefers an exact
> case match, so it will display "(coreutils)coreutils invocation".
>
> Info is operating as expected here. The problem is with the Info file
> - it was a bad idea to add that dir entry.

I could be wrong, but I think this issue has already been fixed in the 
coreutils' git repository (though after 8.23 was released):
  http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=18428
  
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=72e470b9b5af77bcfd90ac175ed285877837ba20

-assaf