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     new 0077e84685 * doc/texinfo.texi (Internationalization of Document 
Strings): Describe use of us-ascii as a "special use" as it does not follow 
usual gettext conventions.
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commit 0077e8468512fdecd075108c1f783a426f60d0c4
Author: Patrice Dumas <pertusus@free.fr>
AuthorDate: Tue Nov 1 17:51:22 2022 +0000

    * doc/texinfo.texi (Internationalization of Document Strings):
    Describe use of us-ascii as a "special use" as it does not
    follow usual gettext conventions.
---
 ChangeLog        | 6 ++++++
 doc/texinfo.texi | 6 +++++-
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index d91cd2d65a..0fb738a8fd 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2022-11-01  Patrice Dumas  <pertusus@free.fr>
+
+       * doc/texinfo.texi (Internationalization of Document Strings):
+       Describe use of us-ascii as a "special use" as it does not
+       follow usual gettext conventions.
+
 2022-11-01  Patrice Dumas  <pertusus@free.fr>, and
             Gavin Smith  <gavinsmith0123@gmail.com>
 
diff --git a/doc/texinfo.texi b/doc/texinfo.texi
index 3be9e677af..b77cb49345 100644
--- a/doc/texinfo.texi
+++ b/doc/texinfo.texi
@@ -17130,7 +17130,11 @@ is 
@var{documentlanguage}@code{.}@var{documentencoding}.
 
 @cindex @code{us-ascii} encoding, and translations
 If the @var{documentlanguage} has the form @samp{ll_CC}, that is
-tried first, and then just @samp{ll}.  If that does not exist, and the
+tried first, and then just @samp{ll}.
+
+To cope with the possibility of having multiple encodings, a
+special use of the @code{us-ascii} locale encoding is also possible.
+If the @samp{ll} locale in the current encoding does not exist, and the
 encoding is not @code{us-ascii}, then @code{us-ascii} is tried.
 
 The idea is that if there is a @code{us-ascii} encoding, it means that