Re: `texindex` output depends on locale settings

[Werner LEMBERG]

> I very much hope that your ideas of half-solving this for half of
> the OSes out there are not shared by the Texinfo maintainers.  I
> personally think it wold be shameful to have such a "solution".

For the short term, I very much disagree.  Better indexing support can
be quickly added as a feature available on certain platforms until a
universal solution is found – and implemented.

It's not clear to me at all why you object so strongly.  It is a noble
goal to make texinfo work universally, but first and foremost it is a
GNU project, and one of the central points in its philosophy that it
should work well in GNU environments, with other platforms having less
priority.

> The right way of solving this is not to request unattainable goals
> like complete independence of the locale.  This is simply
> impractical.

Using a wrapper can completely hide the locale.


    Werner