Re: do not upper case @sc argument in HTML cross manual Cross References

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2023 22:27:49 +0100
> From: pertusus@free.fr
> Cc: Gavin Smith <gavinsmith0123@gmail.com>, bug-texinfo@gnu.org
> 
> On Wed, Mar 08, 2023 at 10:17:42PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Does texi2any at all work in the Turkish locale?
> 
> I can't see why not.

I suggest trying that some day.  There be dragons.

> There may be some need to modify texi2any more generally (for
> example for upper casing, for locale dependent index keys sorting,
> maybe for line breaking in Info output).  There may be some trouble
> with presentation of index split by letter too.
> 
> >  The letter-case
> > issues in that locale can easily break many applications that don't
> > expect case-fiddling of ASCII characters to produce non-ASCII
> > characters.
> 
> I do not think that it matters in texi2any (and for perl character
> strings more generally).

It could matter if texi2any up-cases some text that includes 'i',
e.g. for case-insensitive comparison or for producing text that must
be in upper case, like commands for some network protocol.  E.g., what
happens with sorting the index entries of a Texinfo manual?