Re: Wide character in warn at /usr/bin/makeinfo

On Mon, Sep 19, 2022 at 09:41:43AM -0700, Raymond Toy wrote:
> I'm running makeinfo on some Russian docs (for maxima) and I get the message
> 
> Wide character in warn at /home/toy/bin/makeinfo line 637.
> Introduction.texi:207: @ref reference to nonexistent node `Category:
> Справка' (possibly involving @category)
> 
> What does this mean?  Is it something I need to fix?

No, it's a makeinfo bug.  It means that a Unicode string got sent to
stdout without being encoded first.  Is this with the development version
or a released version?  There have been many changes to do with character
encoding since the last release.