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bug#24637: 25.1; non-ascii chars fail to render in Info buffer
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Stefan Kangas |
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bug#24637: 25.1; non-ascii chars fail to render in Info buffer |
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Fri, 08 Nov 2019 03:50:26 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org> writes:
> On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 06:18:02PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> > From: Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org>
>> > Cc: ivan <ivan.brennan@gmail.com>, 24637@debbugs.gnu.org
>> > Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2016 11:27:56 +0000
>> >
>> > > Does anyone else see this on OS X (or on any other OS)?
>> >
>> > Just checked and I get the incorrect behaviour with the upper-case UTF-8
>> > in emacs.info's "Local Variables:" section.
>>
>> Do you also have an old Texinfo?
>
> Yup, that’s it exactly. macOS 10.12 comes with Texinfo 4.8.
>
> As far as I can tell ./configure is looking for any version above 4.6.
> I guess this is wrong, or the macOS version is broken.
>
> For reference, I used homebrew to install 6.3 and this fixed it:
>
> brew install texinfo
> brew link texinfo --force
>
> There are some warnings about linking in the upgraded version, but I
> can’t really see what difference it makes, and I’m not sure whether
> people building Emacs within homebrew itself will need to perform that
> step.
If I read this correctly, the problem is with an old version of
texinfo (perhaps only on macOS). If that is the case, this is not a
bug in Emacs and should be closed?
Best regards,
Stefan Kangas
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