Re: info --apropos should decode/encode nodes/index entries

[Patrice Dumas]

On Sat, Aug 20, 2022 at 10:51:07AM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2022 09:39:26 +0200
> > From: Patrice Dumas <pertusus@free.fr>
> > Cc: bug-texinfo@gnu.org
> > 
> > The stand-alone reader already does that for regular Info browsing.
> > I tested both in a 8bit encoded locale and in an UTF-8 locale,
> > reading Info files in iso-8859-1 and utf-8 encodings, and it works
> > well, including searching.  In the 8bit locale, the UTF-8 characters
> > appear as ??? but that's the best possible output.
> 
> Ideally, ??? should only appear if the character cannot be encoded in
> the locale's codeset.  Otherwise, the reader should encode in the
> locale's codeset before writing.  So, for example, Latin-1 characters
> in a UTF-8 encoded document should appear as themselves if the
> locale's encoding is Latin-1.

It is the case, the ??? appear for characters that are not in latin1,
characters in the UTF-8 encoded Info file that are in latin1 are encoded
as themselves in latin1.

> > There is a specific issue with --apropos, I guess.
> 
> Why is it special?

I don't know.  I tried to read the code a bit to see if I could
understand where it was different from regular Info reading but I abandonned
rapidly.

Hence the report here, as a bug.

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Pat