Re: Problem with internationalisation in texi2any

[Gavin Smith]

On Mon, Sep 07, 2020 at 07:44:01PM +0000, Vincent Belaïche wrote:
> Bonjour,
> I installed texinfo from source, I am at revision 7997.
> 
> Here is the output of texi2any --version:
> 
> texi2any --version
> perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
> perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
> LC_ALL = (unset),
> LANG = "en_FR.UTF-8"
>     are supported and installed on your system.
> perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
> texi2any (GNU texinfo) 6.5dev
> 
> Copyright (C) 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
> There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

I wonder if that is a problem with perl itself.  I get a similar message
for "LANG=xx perl --version" where xx is not a real locale.  Could you 
try running "perl --version" and see if you get an error?

> When I compile to PDF the localisation is OK, and anyway I had not this 
> problem before and I don't think that I changed anything in the document 
> header defining the document language.

Yes, the localization for PDF is done completely separately to texi2any.

> PS : I could not post the bug on savannah project page.

That is intentional.