Re: address@hidden: Bug#113988: makeinfo: locale settings should not influence output files]

[Yann Dirson]

On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 10:39:48AM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Josip Rodin <address@hidden>
> > Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 08:29:50 +0200
> > 
> > LANG setting causes l10n of output file regardless of the language of
> > the processed file.  This is a common misunderstanding of how locales
> > should be used.
> 
> Thank you for your report.
> 
> Please elaborate about the problem (examples of the input and the
> wrong output might help a lot).  IIRC, makeinfo deliberately ignores
> LANG for its output, except for error messages, but maybe I'm missing
> something.

I already had to explain this in more details to allow checking
whether a debian package has been hit by this problem.  You'll find it
at http://bugs.debian.org/113991

Please ask if you need more info

Regards,
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