Re: Bug#779885: info: Does not display a info-file from the start, if it contains (some) multibyte characters

2015-06-06 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello, On 06/06/2015 06:13 AM, Gavin Smith wrote: Looking at the dir file you attached, there are the following entries: * Coreutils: (coreutils). Core GNU (file, text, shell) utilities. * coreutils: (coreutils)coreutils invocation. Multi-call program. The two labels are "Coreutils" an

Re: Bug#779885: info: Does not display a info-file from the start, if it contains (some) multibyte characters

2015-06-06 Thread Norbert Preining
clone 779885 -1 reassign -1 wdiff retitle -1 (upstream) please don't use the same node name two times (wdiff) close 779885 thanks Hi all, On Sat, 06 Jun 2015, Assaf Gordon wrote: > I could be wrong, but I think this issue has already been fixed in the > coreutils' git repository (though after 8.

texinfo-5.9.93 pretest available

2015-06-06 Thread Karl Berry
We've put up the next pretest for the next Texinfo release: http://tug.org/~karl/texinfo-5.9.93.tar.xz Sorry for the irregular url, but the regular process for uploading to alpha.gnu.org appears to be broken. I'll copy it to alpha as soon as the FSF sysadmins have fixed. The changes since the

Re: Bug#779885: info: Does not display a info-file from the start, if it contains (some) multibyte characters

2015-06-06 Thread Gavin Smith
On 6 June 2015 at 23:25, Karl Berry wrote: > Not that that particular case has anything to do with the general > problem, of course. I've been bothered with such cases off and on, but > I don't think there is any general solution. It is a fact that manuals > often have the same name as their pri

Re: Bug#779885: info: Does not display a info-file from the start, if it contains (some) multibyte characters

2015-06-06 Thread Karl Berry
* coreutils: (coreutils)coreutils invocation. Multi-call program. I do not have a program named "coreutils" on my system, despite the documentation, and I installed coreutils-8.23 from original sources. Maybe coreutils.texi should not contain this Info entry? Not that that particular case h

Re: Solaris 11 info test suite problems

2015-06-06 Thread Gavin Smith
On 6 June 2015 at 00:45, Gavin Smith wrote: > On 6 June 2015 at 00:22, Karl Berry wrote: >> Better to upset whatever terminal settings the user had beforehand >> >> Clearly, doing the stty on this system is desirable. >> >> Doing the stty on all systems is what I'm worried about, i.e., >> ups

Re: Bug#779885: info: Does not display a info-file from the start, if it contains (some) multibyte characters

2015-06-06 Thread Gavin Smith
On 6 June 2015 at 08:24, Norbert Preining wrote: > We are updating the dir file by looping over all info files and call > install-info "$file" "$INFODIR/dir" > > I attach the gzipped version of the dir file on my system. Please have a look at coreutils.info (or coreutils.info-1) and look

Re: Bug#779885: info: Does not display a info-file from the start, if it contains (some) multibyte characters

2015-06-06 Thread Norbert Preining
Dear texinfo team, down here at Debian we got a bug report concerning 5.2, but I can confirm that the same happens with 5.9.92. The mentioned case about coreutils is a bit particular, as there are so many entries, but info wdiff also jumps into the Invocation instead of top of wdiff. We