Re: Prefer luatex for documentation

[Jean Abou Samra]

> Le 27 nov. 2022 à 19:40, Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org> a écrit :
> 
> What I'm now working on are macros for
> `configure.ac` to find a UTF-8 locale, which is important for the
> documentation generation in the long run.  Alas, it is non-trivial to
> write a portable solution, and I wasn't able to find something similar
> in the internet and thus have to create such macros almost from
> scratch, using snippets from 'gnulib' and 'gettext'.  This will
> certainly take a while since it must be tested on many platforms.


Phooey, that sounds complicated. I 
 wonder if it would not take just as much time to reimplement texindex in Perl, 
as suggested in 
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2022-11/msg00022.html … (It 
would also benefit everyone using indices in Texinfo.)