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

On Mon, Sep 19, 2022 at 11:51 AM Gavin Smith <[email protected]>
wrote:

> 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.
>

Ah, ok.  I forgot to mention this is with 6.8.  I'll wait until 6.9 is
released to update my makeinfo version.


-- 
Ray