Re: info '(latex2e)\indent & \noindent' doesn't work with Msys2

[Gavin Smith]

On Tue, Apr 04, 2023 at 12:48:14PM +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 04, 2023 at 10:59:53AM +0100, Gavin Smith wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 04, 2023 at 09:35:07AM +0200, Arash Esbati wrote:
> > > Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> > > 
> > > > ??? What is your console output codepage set to?
> > > 
> > >   C:\>chcp
> > >   Aktive Codepage: 850.
> > 
> > The use of the codepage 850 instead of what 'locale' reports likely
> > comes from these lines in texi2any.pl:
> 
> I think that I did that for the 7 release, based on some code found on
> internet, but I do not really understand what it does.

It came from Eli:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2022-10/msg00175.html
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2022-10/msg00177.html

It seems to be for a valid purpose.



> 
> > if (!defined($locale_encoding) and $^O eq 'MSWin32') {
> >   eval 'require Win32::API';
> >   if (!$@) {
> >     Win32::API::More->Import("kernel32", "int GetACP()");
> >     my $CP = GetACP();
> >     if (defined($CP)) {
> >       $locale_encoding = 'cp'.$CP;
> >     }
> >   }
> > }