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
