Bug 697606

Summary:	[Tracker] Missing @documentencoding in texinfo files (seen with sys-apps/texinfo-6.7)
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Ulrich Müller <ulm>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	perl
Priority:	Normal	Keywords:	Tracker
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:	695918, 695954, 696044, 697004, 697494, 697556, 697726, 706326, 710824
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Description Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2019-10-13 08:08:08 UTC

sys-apps/texinfo-6.7 is picky about non-ASCII characters in texinfo files, if the file doesn't declare @documentencoding.

This is seen at least with files in the ISO-8859-1 encoding. Not sure if it actually occurs with files that are UTF-8, however, the texinfo manual says that @documentencoding should be declared for anything that isn't ASCII.

Typical error message:

utf8 "\xF8" does not map to Unicode at /usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/ParserNonXS.pm line 1796, <FH> line 1448.
Malformed UTF-8 character: \xf8\x72\x6c\x79\x6b (unexpected non-continuation byte 0x72, immediately after start byte 0xf8; need 5 bytes, got 1) in pattern match (m//) at /usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/ParserNonXS.pm line 3364.
Malformed UTF-8 character (fatal) at /usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/ParserNonXS.pm line 3364.

Example of bug fix:
https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/app-emacs/mmm-mode/files/mmm-mode-0.5.7-texinfo-encoding.patch?id=2d5224988c9036b05242b207dfe8f1c9221c7d28

Comment 1 Andreas K. Hüttel archtester

2021-04-26 17:16:06 UTC

Seems like nothing left to do here.