[bug #22380] UTF-8 not supported in standalone Info

[Karl Berry]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?22380>

                 Summary: UTF-8 not supported in standalone Info
                 Project: texinfo - GNU documentation system
            Submitted by: karl
            Submitted on: Thursday 02/21/2008 at 11:11
                Category: info
                 Release: 
                Priority: 7 - High
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: bug
                 Privacy: Public
             Open/Closed: Open
             Assigned to: None
                  Status: None
         Discussion Lock: Any

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Details:

Support multibyte character sets, principally UTF-8; most
critically, do not break multibyte characters across lines, but lots
of other problems are present.  This implies major changes to Info,
since it currently assumes byte/character equivalence (having been
written long before multibyte character sets were common).

Here's a careful bug report on the subject (the sender can help test):
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2007-11/msg00033.html

Here's an initial bug report and "patch" that simply disables translation.
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2006-08/msg00001.html
http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/browser/trunk/texinfo/texinfo-4.8-multibyte-1.patch




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