On my Win7 + MSYS + MinGW + MikTex I found a texinfo 4.13 that compiled
without complaints about UTF-8. I suppose the problem is faced mostly by
Mac users.

Unfortunately I can't reproduce the problem here, so I have no clue about
the contents of the .info output...

Kindest regards, Andrea
Il giorno 27/mar/2014 15:36, "Rainer M Krug" <Rainer@krugs.de> ha scritto:

> Andrea Rossetti <andrea.rossetti@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Rainer M Krug <Rainer <at> krugs.de> writes:
> >
> > ...
> >> This is the version info - I did not install an old one on my mac:
> >>
> >> ,----
> >> | $ makeinfo --version
> >> | makeinfo (GNU texinfo) 4.8
> >> |
> >> | Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> > ...
> >
> > I guess the texinfo version is too old for UTF-8: you may see here below
> that
> > UTF-8 is not mentioned, more recent versions have it:
> >
> >
> http://www.nongnu.org/texi2latex/texinfo/documentencoding.html#documentencodi
> > ng
>
> OK - now to the next step: makeinfo 4.8 is part of Maverick (OSX) - so
> it should be not only me who sees this warning? Is this warning a
> problem or can it only result in UTF-8 characters not converted into
> texinfo files?
>
> Rainer
>
>
> >
> > Regards, Andrea
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
> --
> Rainer M. Krug
> email: Rainer<at>krugs<dot>de
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