Re: `texindex` output depends on locale settings

[arnold]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> > and similarly capable C libraries
>
> Are there such libraries in existence, when locale data is considered?
> Which ones?

macOS, and Solaris, to name two. I think AIX as well.

> > provided this is well documented and probably shown in the output of
> > `--version`.

That's not doable.

Werner's idea of a shell wrapper is what I was thinking about.

Obviously texindex, and gawk underneath it, can't do more than what
the underlying C library and installed locales enable.  But on systems
where they can (which is not just GLIBC), it should be possible to do
more than they currently do now.

Arnold