[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #39778] doc-cache is empty when building with texinfo 5.x

[Rik]

Follow-up Comment #1, bug #39778 (project octave):

I'm still at Texinfo 4.13 so you might have to debug this on your own.  It's
really annoying that they seemed to have introduced so many new bugs without
an increase in functionality.  See this discussion from Guile programmers who
are using the same technique (with a different special character) to divide up
records
(http://gnu-guile.7481.n7.nabble.com/makeinfo-swallows-page-breaks-td16347.html).
 The problem of removing special characters may be related to the handling of
accented characters and the document encoding:


Options for Info and plain text:
    --disable-encoding
           do not output accented and special  characters  in  Info  output
           based on @documentencoding.

    --enable-encoding
           override --disable-encoding (default).


So I might try setting the document encoding to bare ASCII playing with that. 
You could gin up your own test file as well.  We could use a different
delimiter character, ASCII 29 and ASCII 30, would also be fine.  Although, my
guess is it doesn't like any ASCII control character whatsoever.


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