Norbert Preining <prein...@logic.at> writes: > On Di, 10 Nov 2009, karme wrote: >> Using system locale de_DE.UTF-8 update-info-dir creates a somehow >> broken dir file. This results in emacs info not recognizing the > > Hmm, that is bad. > >> encoding used and the standalone info browser displaying some bogus >> characters. > > Even worse. I recently introduced the behaviour to read /etc/environment > and (not released) /etc/default/locale.
Yes, I have seen that one in #536476 and first thought that would be my problem, too. But then again I am fine with a translated dir file. Though on the other hand nearly no info documentation is translated¹ and I don't know wether there is any mechanism in place to handle translated documentation. > What is written in those file on your system? /etc/environment is empty ka...@kallisto:~$ cat /etc/default/locale # File generated by update-locale LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 > Can you send me your dir file (but packed in some way, so that the mailer > does not play with the encoding). If you prefer also with personal email. > Thanks attached the dir file ka...@kallisto:/tmp/files$ md5sum /usr/share/info/dir ac71bfdfdf2a98c8bf8c61bd8f2fffc4 /usr/share/info/dir If it gets garbled, i can send it in a tar file again. (just tested it out of curiosity and it should work as is) Greetings ¹ gauche-doc being the only one I am aware off, it includes two info documents, one english and one japenese
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