Re: texinfo.tex indexing bug

[Karl Berry]

Finally getting back to:

    Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2013 22:56:13 +0200
    ...
            @cindex @address@hidden@}} program
    Which should be indexed under  {   ends up being indexed under |

Same is true for just @cindex @{, BTW.

The problem, I believe, is with texindex, which is not prepared to
handle braces as text as far as I could tell.  Thus in texinfo.tex I
chose to use | since at least it is between, in ASCII terms, { and }.
Had to do something so it wouldn't just bomb out.

Fixing texindex ... well, a patch would be welcome :).  (There appear to
be assumptions in texindex.c about balanced braces.  Short of completely
rewriting the program, perhaps the simplest workaround would be to
output special sequences for { and } and transliterate.  Or maybe I'm
missing some escape mechanism.)

sorry,
karl