Re: index sorting in texi2any in C issue with spaces

[Gavin Smith]

On Fri, Feb 02, 2024 at 08:57:01AM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > An alternative is not to have such a variable but just to have an option
> > to collate according to the user's locale.  Then the user would run e.g.
> > "LC_COLLATE=ll_LL.UTF-8 texi2any ..." to use collation from the ll_LL.UTF-8
> > locale.  They would have to have the locale installed that was appropriate
> > for whichever manual they were processing (assuming the "variable weighting"
> > option is appropriate.)
> 
> What would be the default then, though?  AFAIR, we decided by default
> to use en_US.utf-8 for collation, with the purpose of making the
> sorting locale-independent by default, so that Info manuals produced
> with the default settings are identical regardless of the user's
> locale.

I agree that sorting should be locale-independent by default.