GNU bug report logs - #24637
25.1; non-ascii chars fail to render in Info buffer

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: ivan <ivan.brennan <at> gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2016 12:14:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 25.1

Done: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: ivan <ivan.brennan <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 24637 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#24637: 25.1; non-ascii chars fail to render in Info buffer
Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2016 11:36:02 -0400
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Sorry, I should have mentioned in my last response -- I tried changing them
to lowercase, but that didn't fix the problem.

On Sat, Oct 8, 2016 at 10:24 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:

> > From: ivan <ivan.brennan <at> gmail.com>
> > Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2016 08:31:33 -0400
> > Cc: 24637 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> >
> >  It should be "utf-8", in lower case. How come it's in upper case on
> >  your system?
> >
> >  Did you produce the Info files yourself, or did they come with some
> >  package built elsewhere?
> >
> > I used homebrew to build Emacs, so I believe the info files were
> generated locally during the build process,
> > but I didn't do anything special in that regard.
> >
> > I've been trying out two different build formulas,
> > 1. https://github.com/d12frosted/homebrew-emacs-plus
> > (just GNU Emacs with some build options)
> > 2. https://github.com/railwaycat/homebrew-emacsmacport
> > (GNU Emacs with some source code modifications for OSX)
> >
> > Both builds have the uppercase "UTF-8" local variable in their info
> files, and both exhibit the behavior I
> > described.
>
> If you change that to lower-case, does the problem go away?
>
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