On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 01:23:34PM +0100, sborg63 wrote: > Hi, when I try to compile gri (https://github.com/dankelley/gri) on a > recent slackware64-current it fails with this error during compilation: > > > utf8 "\xF3" does not map to Unicode > >at /usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/ParserNonXS.pm line 1796, <FH> line > > 19280. > > > >Malformed UTF-8 character: \xf3\x70\x65\x7a (unexpected > >non-continuation byte 0x70, immediately after start byte 0xf3; need 4 > >bytes, got 1) in pattern match (m//) > >at /usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/ParserNonXS.pm line 3364. > >Malformed UTF-8 character (fatal) > >at /usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/ParserNonXS.pm > > On this system we have now: > texinfo-6.7-x86_64-1
It is because Texinfo 6.7 changed the default input encoding to UTF-8 and the input is in ISO-8859-1. The easiest way to fix this would be to convert the input file to UTF-8, but you could also add "@documentencoding ISO-8859-1" to the file.
