Em Fri, 22 Aug 2025 16:34:38 -0600
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx> escreveu:
> Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > On Fri, Aug 22, 2025 at 09:01:03PM +0900, Akira Yokosawa wrote:
>
> >> > 3) I got a corner case on one of the distros was using xindy to produce
> >> > indexes. This ended causing the build logic to incorretly try to use
> >> > T1 fontenc, which is not UTF-8 compatible.
> >> >
> >> > This patch adds:
> >> >
> >> > \PassOptionsToPackage{xindy}{language=english,codepage=utf8,noautomatic}
> >> >
> >> > to cover such case. It should be noticed that, as the config doesn't
> >> > have \usepackage{xindy}, this will be used only if latexmk ends
> >> > using xindy.
> >>
> >> But I can't see how this macro (executed by XeTeX engine) would have any
> >> effect on xindy (command) invoked from latexmk.
> >>
> >> Can you elaborate on your theory of how it works?
> >> And which distro runs xindy?
> >
> > I can't remember on what distro I saw the issue, but I got it during
> > my builds, where, instead of running makeindex, it tried to run xindy,
> > with failed because of utf-8 fonts.
> >
> > My theory is that, on one of the ditros, there is a /etc/latexmk
> > or similar containing instructions to use xindy instead of makeindex.
> >
> > In any case, this rule is harmless on setups that use makeindex:
> > it only affect setups where there is a latexmk or .latexmk file
> > setting xindy as the default index builder: if this is used,
> > xindy will use utf-8 fonts instead of Type 1.
>
> Can we try to get a handle on that and, if it's truly needed, document
> why? I will confess that I'm confused by it:
>
> > \PassOptionsToPackage{xindy}{language=english,codepage=utf8,noautomatic}
>
> As I understand it, the arguments are {options}{package}, right? so I'm
> not sure how this would work...?
Heh, you're right: the argument is reversed. Also, I repeated the
tests here, and were unable to reproduce the issue I had with xindy.
So, let's just drop it. If we needed, we can re-add, reverting the
parameter order there. Patch is at:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-doc/83068bc31839e7095f1f408e49658362d467797e.1756123459.git.mchehab+huawei@xxxxxxxxxx/T/#u
>
> jon (who will be traveling and slow to respond for a bit)
Thanks,
Mauro
