Re: texinfo-6.8.90 pretest

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2022 13:08:14 +0200
> From: pertusus@free.fr
> Cc: gavinsmith0123@gmail.com, bug-texinfo@gnu.org
> 
> > Here's the diff to Translations.pm, it is AFAIU needed because the
> > Windows locale names don't follow the Posix patterns.  Instead, they
> > are 3-letter names, like "ENU" for en_US, "FRA" for fr_FR, etc.
> 
> Ok.  Hopefully it does not interfere with translations, only with file
> names encodings.

Please tell more: how is this locale used for translations?

I assumed that, since the original Unix code sets the locale to en_US
as fallback, and even falls back to the "C" locale later, that using
the equivalent of en_US on Windows should be okay.

> >  The
> > diff below should be obviously conditioned by this being MS-Windows.
> 
> Is this locale supposed to always exist on Windows?

Yes.  Only very exotic locales need special packages to be installed
on Windows, all the "usual" ones come preinstalled OOTB.

> I am not sure that this patch is needed, as it seems to me that it
> modifies a code that is no longer run on windows with a patch Gavin
> applied very recently.

Which commit is that?