Bug#555620: install-info: ginstall-info produces somehow broken utf-8 output

2019-02-04 Thread Jens Thiele
Hilmar Preuße writes: > I did a test w/ Debian unstable and my result is that the issue was > fixed between 6.3.0 and 6.5.0. > > @Jens: do you have an unstable system at hand for double checking? tested with: 6.5.0.dfsg.1-4+b1 output looks good (dir file after install-info run) jens PS:

Bug#555620: install-info: ginstall-info produces somehow broken utf-8 output

2019-02-03 Thread Hilmar Preuße
On 02.02.19 11:54, Norbert Preining wrote: Moin, > I got the following diff: > --- /usr/share/info/dir 2019-01-31 14:32:01.150851265 +0900 > +++ dir 2019-02-02 19:52:08.774764429 +0900 > @@ -70,11 +70,15 @@ > * Magit: (magit). Using Git from Emacs with Magit. > *

Bug#555620: install-info: ginstall-info produces somehow broken utf-8 output

2019-02-02 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi > I then do: > $ cp dir.ok dir > $ ginstall-info /usr/share/info/maplev.gz dir I copied the current /usr/share/info/dir to ~ I downloaded the maplev.gz from the bug report I called install-info maplev.gz dir I got the following diff: --- /usr/share/info/dir 2019-01-31

Bug#555620: install-info: ginstall-info produces somehow broken utf-8 output

2019-02-02 Thread Jens Thiele
Hilmar Preuße writes: > On 10.11.09 14:40, karme wrote: > > Hi Jens, Hi, > https://bugs.debian.org/555620 > > Is the issue still reproducible in latest texinfo? Please note that the > maplev info still is meanwhile fixed, so one need to copy the sample > from the bug report for reproduction.

Bug#555620: install-info: ginstall-info produces somehow broken utf-8 output

2019-01-28 Thread Hilmar Preuße
On 10.11.09 14:40, karme wrote: Hi Jens, https://bugs.debian.org/555620 Is the issue still reproducible in latest texinfo? Please note that the maplev info still is meanwhile fixed, so one need to copy the sample from the bug report for reproduction. Hilmar > Using system locale de_DE.UTF-8

Bug#555620: install-info: ginstall-info produces somehow broken utf-8 output

2012-07-28 Thread Ian Zimmerman
Oops, I realize I was lying about ada-mode. Nonetheless, even after purging the package containing that info-file (namely, emacs23-common-non-dfsg) the same problem persists: any invocation of update-info-dir corrupts the dir file. A few random tries running ginstall-info on a single info file,

Bug#555620: install-info: ginstall-info produces somehow broken utf-8 output

2010-11-28 Thread Hilmar Preusse
forwarded 555620 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2009-12/msg7.html stop On 15.12.09 Norbert Preining (prein...@logic.at) wrote: here on the Debian side we got a very strange bug report which we believe begin a memory corruption. I spare you the long story, here is a way how

Bug#555620: install-info: ginstall-info produces somehow broken utf-8 output

2009-12-15 Thread Norbert Preining
Dear Karl, dear all, here on the Debian side we got a very strange bug report which we believe begin a memory corruption. I spare you the long story, here is a way how I can reprouce it with install-info from 4.13. The outcome is that the dir file is garbled and there are strange chars hanging

Bug#555620: install-info: ginstall-info produces somehow broken utf-8 output

2009-12-15 Thread Norbert Preining
Dear Karl, dear all, here on the Debian side we got a very strange bug report which we believe begin a memory corruption. I spare you the long story, here is a way how I can reprouce it with install-info from 4.13. The outcome is that the dir file is garbled and there are strange chars hanging

Bug#555620: install-info: ginstall-info produces somehow broken utf-8 output

2009-11-11 Thread Norbert Preining
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

Bug#555620: install-info: ginstall-info produces somehow broken utf-8 output

2009-11-11 Thread Norbert Preining
On Mi, 11 Nov 2009, Jens Thiele wrote: attached the dir file ka...@kallisto:/tmp/files$ md5sum /usr/share/info/dir ac71bfdfdf2a98c8bf8c61bd8f2fffc4 /usr/share/info/dir Thanks, arrived intact. Ok, the problem is really with the two strangely garbled entries. When you remove the Ada mode and

Bug#555620: install-info: ginstall-info produces somehow broken utf-8 output

2009-11-11 Thread Jens Thiele
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

Bug#555620: install-info: ginstall-info produces somehow broken utf-8 output

2009-11-10 Thread karme
Package: install-info Version: 4.13a.dfsg.1-5 Severity: normal Using system locale de_DE.UTF-8 update-info-dir creates a somehow broken dir file. This results in emacs info not recognizing the encoding used and the standalone info browser displaying some bogus characters. How to reproduce: -