Hello, Attached is a minimal example.
I don't know who is to blame, is that Texinfo, or MikTeX, as I updated the latter lately. Look at the .cp file, I get a spurious space in between the bytes of any UTF-8 charcters that do not fit in a single byte (there are plenty of those in French, like é or ù). I suspect that Texinfo lets the active characters active when \write-ing the non sorted index file, and the MikTeX inserts a whitespace like after any command. I had never noticed that before. But maybe it was already there. There is no strongly visible impact on the formatted PDF, except that the index sorted is a little awkward as far as words starting with an accented letter are concerned. So maybe it has been there for a long time. Could you make a trial with TeXLive ? Here is my MiKTeX version: --8<----8<----8<----8<----8<-- begin -->8---->8---->8---->8---->8---- MiKTeX-TeX 2.9.6300 (3.14159265) (MiKTeX 2.9.6350 64-bit) Copyright (C) 1982 by D. E. Knuth; all rights are reserved. TeX is a trademark of the American Mathematical Society. using bzip2 version 1.0.6, 6-Sept-2010 compiled with curl version 7.54.0; using libcurl/7.54.0 WinSSL compiled with expat version 2.2; using expat_2.2.0 compiled with liblzma version 50020032; using 50020032 compiled with libressl version LibreSSL 2.5.3; using LibreSSL 2.5.3 compiled with MiKTeX Application Framework version 1.6334; using 1.6334 compiled with MiKTeX Core version 1.6344; using 1.6344 compiled with MiKTeX Archive Extractor version 1.6300; using 1.6300 compiled with MiKTeX Package Manager version 1.6353; using 1.6353 compiled with uriparser version 0.8.4 compiled with zlib version 1.2.11; using 1.2.11 --8<----8<----8<----8<----8<-- end -->8---->8---->8---->8---->8---- Vincent. PS: I can propose a patch to texinfo.tex if need be, as after having a look at it, my guess is that the problem is there. --- L'absence de virus dans ce courrier électronique a été vérifiée par le logiciel antivirus Avast. https://www.avast.com/antivirus
texi-index-bug.texi
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texi-index-bug.cp
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