Re: Index wrongly encoded with UTF-8

[Vincent Belaïche]

Re-hello,

Actually, the fix is fairly simple. Sorry for not letting you more time
think about it. I attached it.

  Vincent.

PS : BTW, there is not test bench for texinfo.tex non regression, so I
could not submit the corresponding test for this bug.



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Index: ChangeLog
===================================================================
--- ChangeLog   (revision 7847)
+++ ChangeLog   (working copy)
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2017-07-28  Vincent Belaïche  <address@hidden>
+
+       * doc/texinfo.tex: Fix UTF-8 encoding in index files.
+
 2017-06-24  Gavin Smith  <address@hidden>
 
        * tp/Texinfo/Parser.pm (_parse_texi): Remove debugging code
Index: doc/texinfo.tex
===================================================================
--- doc/texinfo.tex     (revision 7847)
+++ doc/texinfo.tex     (working copy)
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 % Load plain if necessary, i.e., if running under initex.
 \expandafter\ifx\csname fmtname\endcsname\relax\input plain\fi
 %
-\def\texinfoversion{2017-06-04.19}
+\def\texinfoversion{2017-07-28.20}
 %
 % Copyright 1985, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995,
 % 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006,
@@ -4870,6 +4870,10 @@
   %
   % Do the redefinitions.
   \definedummies
+  % 
+  \ifx\declaredencoding\utfeight
+        \setnonasciicharscatcodenonglobal\other
+  \fi
 }
 
 % Used for the aux and toc files, where @ is the escape character.


Le 28/07/2017 à 20:13, Vincent Belaïche a écrit :
> Hello,
>
> Attached is a minimal example.
>
> I don't know who is to blame, is that Texinfo, or MikTeX, as I updated
> the latter lately.
>
> Look at the .cp file, I get a spurious space in between the bytes of any
> UTF-8 charcters that do not fit in a single byte (there are plenty of
> those in French, like é or ù).
>
> I suspect that Texinfo lets the active characters active when \write-ing
> the non sorted index file, and the MikTeX inserts a whitespace like
> after any command.
>
> I had never noticed that before. But maybe it was already there. There
> is no strongly visible impact on the formatted PDF, except that the
> index sorted is a little awkward as far as words starting with an
> accented letter are concerned. So maybe it has been there for a long
> time.
>
> Could you make a trial with TeXLive ?
>
> Here is my MiKTeX version:
>
> --8<----8<----8<----8<----8<-- begin -->8---->8---->8---->8---->8----
> MiKTeX-TeX 2.9.6300 (3.14159265) (MiKTeX 2.9.6350 64-bit)
> Copyright (C) 1982 by D. E. Knuth; all rights are reserved.
> TeX is a trademark of the American Mathematical Society.
> using bzip2 version 1.0.6, 6-Sept-2010
> compiled with curl version 7.54.0; using libcurl/7.54.0 WinSSL
> compiled with expat version 2.2; using expat_2.2.0
> compiled with liblzma version 50020032; using 50020032
> compiled with libressl version LibreSSL 2.5.3; using LibreSSL 2.5.3
> compiled with MiKTeX Application Framework version 1.6334; using 1.6334
> compiled with MiKTeX Core version 1.6344; using 1.6344
> compiled with MiKTeX Archive Extractor version 1.6300; using 1.6300
> compiled with MiKTeX Package Manager version 1.6353; using 1.6353
> compiled with uriparser version 0.8.4
> compiled with zlib version 1.2.11; using 1.2.11
> --8<----8<----8<----8<----8<--  end  -->8---->8---->8---->8---->8----
>
>  Vincent.
>
> PS: I can propose a patch to texinfo.tex if need be, as after having a
>     look at it, my guess is that the problem is there.
>
>