From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.comp.tex.texinfo.general Subject: Re: [help-texinfo] Re: coding systems vs. info files Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 06:28:17 +0200 Message-ID: References: <873biscpjr.fsf@jurta.org> <200602110013.k1B0DRH23757@f7.net> <871wy9ime9.fsf@catnip.gol.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1139724765 3031 80.91.229.2 (12 Feb 2006 06:12:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 06:12:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, help-texinfo@gnu.org, karl@freefriends.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 12 07:12:43 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F8ATO-00010C-MO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Feb 2006 07:12:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F8ATN-0004SX-Fi for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Feb 2006 01:12:37 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F88ql-0007Sm-OL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Feb 2006 23:28:40 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F88qj-0007SV-2h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Feb 2006 23:28:38 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F88qg-0007S3-V2; Sat, 11 Feb 2006 23:28:35 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.17] (helo=gandalf.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1F88ue-0003KN-5x; Sat, 11 Feb 2006 23:32:40 -0500 Original-Received: from nitzan.inter.net.il (nitzan.inter.net.il [192.114.186.20]) by gandalf.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.1-GA) with ESMTP id HVR37881; Sun, 12 Feb 2006 06:28:20 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-80-230-5-104.inter.net.il [80.230.5.104]) by nitzan.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3-GA) with ESMTP id CRK54191 (AUTH halo1); Sun, 12 Feb 2006 06:28:16 +0200 (IST) Original-To: Miles Bader In-reply-to: <871wy9ime9.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (message from Miles Bader on Sun, 12 Feb 2006 07:03:10 +0900) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:50393 gmane.comp.tex.texinfo.general:786 Archived-At: > From: Miles Bader > Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 07:03:10 +0900 > Cc: help-texinfo@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > > karl@freefriends.org (Karl Berry) writes: > > Right, it should not use LANG for output (this is nothing new), but > > neither I nor anyone has implemented it yet. (Bruno informed me it is > > not so easy to switch languages in gettext, unfortunately, which is what > > it boils down to.) > > Hmm, I thought there was a function "dgettext" to allow explicitly > specifying the language for a given lookup. The problem is that makeinfo also has its messages to the user which should be displayed in the current locale's language. So it needs to change the language back and forth, depending on the output stream. And that is something gettext doesn't like too much.