Patch derived from discussion at https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?37503 --- texi2html-5.0/texi2html.pl 2010-06-30 17:01:27.000000000 -0500 +++ texi2html-5.0/texi2html.pl 2014-07-09 01:17:57.062990582 -0500 @@ -2589,7 +2589,12 @@ my $state = shift; # FIXME this should be done only once, for @documentencoding - my $encoding = lc(Texi2HTML::Config::get_conf('DOCUMENT_ENCODING')); + my $encoding; + my $input_encoding = Texi2HTML::Config::get_conf('documentencoding'); + if (defined($input_encoding)) + { + $encoding = lc($input_encoding); + } if (defined($encoding) and $encoding ne '' and exists($Texi2HTML::Config::t2h_encoding_aliases{$encoding})) { $encoding = $Texi2HTML::Config::t2h_encoding_aliases{$encoding}; Fix failures in test/encodings. --- texi2html-5.0/texi2html.pl 2014-07-09 01:22:06.000000000 -0500 +++ texi2html-5.0/texi2html.pl 2014-07-10 23:23:47.182097602 -0500 @@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ # for translations #use encoding 'utf8'; #use utf8; +binmode STDERR, ':encoding(utf8)'; # # According to lass='sub right'>