Re: Repository has non-UTF8 names, creating issues with certain file systems

[Patrice Dumas]

On Wed, Mar 09, 2022 at 07:44:29PM -0800, Mike Swanson wrote:
> On Thu, 2022-03-10 at 04:35 +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> > Now it is generated just before the tests in tp/tests.  But won't the
> > issue be there too not at checkout time, but at make check time? 
> > Could
> > you please test it?
> 
> Yes it does fail with "make check":
> 
> make[4]: Entering directory '/home/mike/tmp/texinfo/tp/tests'
> /usr/bin/perl ./../maintain/copy_change_file_name_encoding.pl
> ./input/included_latîn1.texi .
> could not copy ./input/included_latîn1.texi: Invalid or incomplete
> multibyte or wide character
> 
> I suspect it should be possible to catch this error from the Perl
> script and at least provide a warning that it was unable to create the
> non-UTF8 file name.

Instead of failing, maybe create a file that, if present, have tests
skipped.  I'll try to do something along that.

-- 
Pat