bug#64235: patch: Ensure that makeinfo ≥ 6.8 checks the @menu structure

2023-06-24 Thread Jim Meyering
On Thu, Jun 22, 2023 at 4:28 PM Bruno Haible wrote: > Makeinfo versions < 6.7 detected mistakes in the @menu structure of TeXinfo > input. Makeinfo versions ≥ 6.8 don't do this any more by default. They need > an extra option, for this validation to happen. See >

bug#64277: [feature request] handle files encoded in utf-16le

2023-06-24 Thread Paul Eggert
On 2023-06-24 14:23, Jeremy Hetzler wrote: I would like to request a feature to be added to grep which would enable it to transparently decode UTF16-LE files so they can be conveniently searched. Not sure it's worth the effort as this format is not that common for GNU grep, it'd be a pain to

bug#64277: [feature request] handle files encoded in utf-16le

2023-06-24 Thread Jeremy Hetzler
Maintainers, I recently was confused as to why GNU grep did not find any matches in certain files, when vim clearly showed that the search string was present. Turns out the files (log files from a Windows application) are encoded in UTF16-LE. $ file '06-21-2023 03-22-46' > 06-21-2023 03-22-46: