Texinfo objects to ISO-8859-1 in vm.texinfo
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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VM |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
When the VM package was rebuilt for the upcoming Fedora 32, it failed with an error
makeinfo vm.texinfo -o vm.info
utf8 "\xFC" does not map to Unicode at /usr/share/
Malformed UTF-8 character: \xfc\x6c\
Malformed UTF-8 character (fatal) at /usr/share/
The problem is the ü in _Müller_ which is encoded in Latin-1/ISO-8859-1. After converting the `vm.texinfo` file to UTF-8 the build completed fine.
I'm not sure if there is anything Fedora-specific in the _makeinfo_ installation. But regardless of that, ISO-8859-1 feels pretty obsolete these days. Perhaps you wish to convert your upstream source too to UTF-8.