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25.1; non-ascii chars fail to render in Info buffer

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Message #57 received at 24637-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
To: Alan Third <alan <at> idiocy.org>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 24637-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 ivan.brennan <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: bug#24637: 25.1; non-ascii chars fail to render in Info buffer
Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2019 21:18:36 +0100

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

> Alan Third <alan <at> idiocy.org> writes:
>
>> On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 06:18:02PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>> > From: Alan Third <alan <at> idiocy.org>
>>> > Cc: ivan <ivan.brennan <at> gmail.com>,  24637 <at> 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?

More information was requested, but none was given within 5 weeks, so
I'm closing this bug.  If this is still an issue, please reply to this
email (use "Reply to all" in your email client) and we can reopen the
bug report.

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas

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