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Re: Wide character in warn at /usr/bin/makeinfo
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Gavin Smith |
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Re: Wide character in warn at /usr/bin/makeinfo |
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Mon, 19 Sep 2022 19:51:46 +0100 |
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
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> Wide character in warn at /home/toy/bin/makeinfo line 637.
> Introduction.texi:207: @ref reference to nonexistent node `Category:
> Справка' (possibly involving @category)
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> 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.