Re: Texinfo 7.0.93 pretest available

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2023 21:17:28 +0200
> From: Patrice Dumas <pertusus@free.fr>
> 
> On Sun, Oct 08, 2023 at 06:29:23PM +0100, Gavin Smith wrote:
> > 
> > I remember that in the past, I broke up some of these lines to avoid
> > test failures on some platform that had different wcwidth results for
> > some characters.
> 
> Maybe an optionin the long term here would be not to use wcwidth at all,
> but use libunistring functions like u8_strwidth.  It would probably
> remove the issue of locale.  The only requirement would be to make sure
> that the input string is UTF-8 encoded such that it can be converted to
> uint8_t without risk of error.

Isn't makeinfo converts all non-ASCII text to UTF-8 anyway?  If so, we
should always use the UTF-8 functions, without relying on the locale
and libc locale-aware functions.