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

[Gavin Smith]

On Mon, Sep 19, 2022 at 12:03:15PM -0700, Raymond Toy wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 19, 2022 at 11:51 AM Gavin Smith <gavinsmith0123@gmail.com>
> 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.

The next release may be 7.0 or 7.1 due to many changes being made throughout
the code.