Re: Index wrongly encoded with UTF-8

[Vincent Belaïche]

Hello,

You mean that with TeXLive the bug does not exist.

What is supposed to do tex when \write-ing and there are active-chars ? 
I presume that the active-chars are developped like any command would 
be. I am surprised that MikTeX (MT) and TeXLive (TL) do not do the same 
output.

So my 1st naive question = are you sure that you used the latest 
texinfo.tex (that on the texinfo repo, not that which TL has) ? Please 
check your compile log file.

  Vincent.


Le 30/07/2017 à 16:16, Gavin Smith a écrit :
> Thank you for the report.
>
> I copied your file texi-index-bug.texi and ran pdfetex on it. I got a correct
> UTF-8 encoded output, which I've attached.
>
> On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 08:13:03PM +0200, Vincent Belaïche wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Attached is a minimal example.
> >
> > I don't know who is to blame, is that Texinfo, or MikTeX, as I updated
> > the latter lately.
> >
> > Look at the .cp file, I get a spurious space in between the bytes of any
> > UTF-8 charcters that do not fit in a single byte (there are plenty of
> > those in French, like é or ù).
> >
> > I suspect that Texinfo lets the active characters active when \write-ing
> > the non sorted index file, and the MikTeX inserts a whitespace like
> > after any command.
> I doubt it, but don't know for certain.
>
> I know there can be differences between TeX engines in how byte values
> 128-255 are handled.
>
> I will look at the patches you sent and see if they make a difference to
> anything.


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