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authorArchaic <archaic@linuxfromscratch.org>2005-12-26 19:46:12 +0000
committerArchaic <archaic@linuxfromscratch.org>2005-12-26 19:46:12 +0000
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tree38766a292ed556718529449133b71b25138df9b8 /chapter06/texinfo.xml
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Reverting UTF-8 changes until everything is in place.
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@@ -29,14 +29,6 @@ Diffutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Make, Ncurses, and Sed</seg></seglistitem>
<sect2 role="installation">
<title>Installation of Texinfo</title>
-<para>The <command>info</command> program makes assumptions such as "a string
-occupies the same number of character cells on the screen and bytes in memory"
-and "one can break the string anywhere" that are incorrect in UTF-8 locales.
-While the patch below is not the proper solution, it at least hides the problem
-by falling back to English messages when a multibyte locale is in use:</para>
-
-<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&texinfo-multibyte-patch;</userinput></screen>
-
<para>Texinfo allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink
attack on temporary files. Apply the following patch to fix this:</para>