The manual says:
For TeX, this command causes a file txi-locale.tex to
be read (if it exists).
But when I run texi2pdf maxima.texi, I get
./maxima.texi:4: Cannot read language file txi-ru.tex.
Which is true, but I was expecting TeX to ignore this.
maxima.texi (for Russian) is basically:
\input ../texinfo
@setfilename
maxima.info@documentencoding UTF-8
@documentlanguage ru
@include include-maxima.texi
@bye
include-maxima.texi includes all the various sections of the maxima manual.
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