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

[Josip Rodin]

On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 09:39:18AM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > 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
> 
> Thanks for the pointer.
> 
> So what do you suggest that makeinfo should do instead?  Using the
> document language instead of the locale language is AFAIK tricky: you
> still want the warning and error messages to be printed in locale's
> language, right?

If LC_MESSAGES is set to something, yeah.

A generated document's contents shouldn't be influenced by the environment
of the generator program, otherwise weird mixtures of languages might happen.

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