Re: LANG and @documentlanguage

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Akim Demaille <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 11:15:51 +0100
> 
> I suppose this issue is well known

Indeed.

> the fact that makeinfo depends on the environment to decide what
> language should be obeyed for "See", "Table of Contents" etc. is a
> problem.  It should depend on @documentlanguage only.

The problem is to implement this, and do that correctly.  AFAIR, the
gettext library (and the l10n concept in general) doesn't let you mix
languages freely.  They require that you set the language and then
translate the strings according to that language.  By contrast, what
we need is to support 2 languages at once: one to print messages meant
for the consumption of the user who runs makeinfo, the other for the
fixed strings we put into the output document.

Any ideas as to how to implement this cleanly are welcome.