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


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: do not upper case @sc argument in HTML cross manual Cross References
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2023 09:42:19 +0200

> From: Gavin Smith <gavinsmith0123@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2023 07:19:15 +0000
> Cc: pertusus@free.fr, bug-texinfo@gnu.org
> 
> On Fri, Mar 10, 2023 at 09:05:58AM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > I'm not saying that texi2any doesn't play by the locale's rules.
> > Quite the contrary: I'm saying that _if_ it plays by the locale's
> > rules, then downcasing an innocent word like "INIT" will yield "ınit"
> > in Turkish locale, something that could well be unexpected, and if you
> > compare thatr with "init" for equality, it will compare not equal.
> 
> It's possible that a bug like that might occur somewhere in the code
> base.  Fixing such a bug would probably depend on reports from users.

Sure.  I just explained why I recommend to actually run texi2any in
the Turkish locale, because the breakage due to that, if it exists, is
usually in very unexpected places.



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