On Tue, Mar 08, 2022 at 02:39:53PM -0800, Mike Swanson wrote:
> I know it’s not, strictly speaking, a bug, but it is common in ZFS
> installations to set utf8only=on to enforce that all file names are
> strictly UTF-8, and this causes an issue when trying to clone the Git
> repository for texinfo on a ZFS system with that feature enabled:

Thanks for the report.  This is my doing, a file for a test and it is
problematic already for other purposes (no possibility to put in make
dist).

> I’m not sure for what purpose the file is in the repository, but it
> might be worth considering writing out non-UTF8 tests dynamically at
> build or runtime provided that the host operating system supports such
> names.

Gavin already proposed the same, I also agree that it would be better.
I have no precise idea on how that can be done, but I'll try to generate
it as Gavin and you said.

-- 
Pat

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