latin.xdy is built incorrectly (causing crash)
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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xindy (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
When building the xindy-rules package, the file "make-rules/
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texindy testfile.idx
Opening logfile "/dev/null" (done)
Reading indexstyle...
Loading module "/tmp/F5cxozedk
Loading module "lang/general/
Loading module "lang/general/
Finished loading module "lang/general/
Finished loading module "lang/general/
Loading module "tex/inputenc/
Error in line 4:
;; Generated from latin?.xdy
Binary
ERROR: EVAL: variable BINARY has no value
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A good solution was added to gentoo (https:/
For those struggling with this issue, a workaround is to call "texindy -C utf8" or, if using imakeidx, using "\makeindex[ options= -C utf8]" (obviously, as long as your document is indeed utf8). Using XeLaTex/LuaLaTeX also works, because both also force utf8.