On Tue, Apr 04, 2023 at 09:15:34AM +0200, Arash Esbati wrote: > Gavin Smith <gavinsmith0...@gmail.com> writes: > > > Does the same message get printed for other Perl programs? > > E.g. > > > > perl -e 'print "hello\n";' > > No, that works fine: > > $ perl -e 'print "hello\n";' > hello > > > I suspect that even though "locale" is printing something sensible, > > there is still something wrong with the locale settings. > > Anything else I could try? >
You could try building Texinfo 7.0.3 (or on the release/7.0 branch) to see if it is any of the subsequent changes on the master branch that have had this effect. I'm sending two short test files, one with the coding declaration and one without. The files also include a bullet codepoint which may fall back to being shown as an ASCII asterisk depending on what is going on. It often helps to have simpler, self-contained failing examples.
File: coreutils.info, Node: Top 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. copyright © bullet • Local Variables: coding: utf-8 End:
File: coreutils.info, Node: Top 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. copyright © bullet • Local Variables: coding: utf-8 End:
