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Re: `texindex` output depends on locale settings


From: arnold
Subject: Re: `texindex` output depends on locale settings
Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2022 08:57:04 -0700
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> Sure, but is the issue only with lower-case letters?  What about
> collation order or even determining what is and isn't a character (as
> opposed to incomplete byte sequence)?

I have some thoughts about this. I'd have to do some research and try
them out.

> I mean: what if the document is encoded in Latin-1, but the locale's
> codeset is UTF-8?  Then the 0xE0 byte (à in Latin-1 encoding) will
> probably not be identified as lower-case.

Again, I have some thoughts, I'll have to work with the texinfo maintainer
on this.

Thanks,

Arnold



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