Re: index sorting in texi2any in C issue with spaces

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Gavin Smith <gavinsmith0123@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2024 15:58:28 +0000
> Cc: pertusus@free.fr, bug-texinfo@gnu.org
> 
> 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.

That's definitely ideal.