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

[Gavin Smith]

On Mon, Apr 03, 2023 at 05:07:02PM +0200, Arash Esbati wrote:
> Gavin Smith <gavinsmith0123@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > I've made this change in a recent commit; could you try it again?
> 
> Thanks Gavin, your last change fixed it.  Before going back and trying
> Eli's suggestion, I'm still facing 2 issues:
> 
> 1. When I do 'info dir' with my build, I see:
> 
>    Next: vdir invocation,  Prev: ls invocation,  Up: Directory listing
> 
>    10.2 `dirï: Briefly list directory contents
>    ===========================================
> 
>    `dirï is equivalent to `ls -C -bï; that is, by default files are listed
>    in columns, sorted vertically, and special characters are represented by
>    backslash escape sequences.
> 
>       *Note `lsï: ls invocation.
> 
> With the info shipped with Msys2, I get:
> 
>    Next: vdir invocation,  Prev: ls invocation,  Up: Directory listing
> 
>    10.2 ‘dir’: Briefly list directory contents
>    ===========================================
> 
>    ‘dir’ is equivalent to ‘ls -C -b’; that is, by default files are listed
>    in columns, sorted vertically, and special characters are represented by
>    backslash escape sequences.
> 
>       *Note ‘ls’: ls invocation.
> 
> Note that the ' is turned into a ï.  This is the snapshot of it:

The first thing to check is that it is the same file that is being
displayed both times.  After you run 'info dir', could you press
'='?  This will show the name of the file being displayed in the
status line.

The next step after this would be to look at the files themselves (e.g.
with less or a text editor) and see what kinds of quote marks are used
within -- this would indicate whether info was doing any kind of conversion.
Also check the end of the Info files for a "coding" directive.

>    Locale 'English_United States.1252' may not work well.
>    The following characters (and maybe others) may not have the same meaning 
> as the Perl program expects:
>    \t

This appears to be an error message printed by Perl.  What comes before
this?  Is it from a run of texi2any?