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

[Gavin Smith]

On Mon, Apr 03, 2023 at 05:57:14PM +0200, Arash Esbati wrote:
> Yes, it seems to a texi2any run:
> 
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> if (TEXINFO_DEV_SOURCE=1 ; export TEXINFO_DEV_SOURCE ; top_srcdir=".." ; 
> export top_srcdir ; top_builddir=".." ; export top_builddir ; 
> /mingw64/bin/perl ../tp/texi2any --version) >/dev/null 2>&1; then \
>   for f in texi2any_api.info texi2any_api.info-[0-9] 
> texi2any_api.info-[0-9][0-9] texi2any_api.i[0-9] texi2any_api.i[0-9][0-9]; do 
> \
>     if test -f $f; then mv $f $backupdir; restore=mv; else :; fi; \
>   done; \
> else :; fi && \
> if TEXINFO_DEV_SOURCE=1 ; export TEXINFO_DEV_SOURCE ; top_srcdir=".." ; 
> export top_srcdir ; top_builddir=".." ; export top_builddir ; 
> /mingw64/bin/perl ../tp/texi2any -c INFO_SPECIAL_CHARS_WARNING=0  -I . \
>  -o texi2any_api.info `test -f 'texi2any_api.texi' || echo 
> './'`texi2any_api.texi; \
> then \
>   rc=0; \
> else \
>   rc=$?; \
>   $restore $backupdir/* `echo "./texi2any_api.info" | sed 's|[^/]*$||'`; \
> fi; \
> rm -rf $backupdir; exit $rc
> 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
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> 
> This is with perl v5.32.1 (native build).
> 
> Best, Arash

Does the same message get printed for other Perl programs?
E.g.

  perl -e 'print "hello\n";'

I suspect that even though "locale" is printing something sensible,
there is still something wrong with the locale settings.