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From: David Masterson <dsmasterson@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Notes-Mode package problem (was dir(Top) is in French ?!?)
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 11:19:38 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86a9b571vp.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.201.1398707246.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: David Masterson <dsmasterson@gmail.com>
>> Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 10:24:39 -0700
>> 
>> My suggestion is that #1 should be a separate file from the concatenated
>> dir files so that the above issue doesn't happen.  I'm not totally sure,
>> but what appears to me to have happened is that the Notes-Mode package
>> was generated with a dir file that had a header that was in French.
>
> I'd rather guess that it was generated from scratch in a French
> locale.  When there's no previous 'dir', install-info generates it,
> and it uses a localized version of that blurb when it does.
>
>> By moving #1 to a separate Emacs-specific file, the header can be LANG
>> localized as appropriate.
>
> Every dir file is supposed to have that "header".

And the $64K question -- why?  You don't see the problem that I'm
talking about here?

-- 
David Masterson
Programmer At Large


  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-04-28 18:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-28  3:15 dir(Top) is in French ?!? David Masterson
2014-04-28  4:33 ` Notes-Mode package problem (was dir(Top) is in French ?!?) David Masterson
2014-04-28  5:33   ` David Masterson
2014-04-28 15:21     ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]     ` <mailman.182.1398698489.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-04-28 17:24       ` David Masterson
2014-04-28 17:47         ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]         ` <mailman.201.1398707246.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-04-28 18:19           ` David Masterson [this message]
2014-04-28 18:47             ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]             ` <mailman.211.1398710871.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-04-29  5:14               ` David Masterson
2014-04-28 15:18 ` dir(Top) is in French ?!? Eli Zaretskii
     [not found] ` <mailman.181.1398698332.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-04-28 17:32   ` David Masterson
2014-04-28 17:49     ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]     ` <mailman.202.1398707393.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-04-28 18:29       ` David Masterson
2014-04-28 18:50         ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-04-29 12:03           ` Stefan Monnier
2014-04-29 14:06             ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]             ` <mailman.272.1398780373.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-04-29 22:02               ` David Masterson
2014-04-30  2:56                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-04-29 22:21               ` Stefan Monnier
2014-04-30  2:58                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-04-30 12:20                   ` Stefan Monnier
     [not found]                   ` <mailman.369.1398860725.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-05-01 13:30                     ` Stefan Monnier
2014-05-01 15:14                       ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]                       ` <mailman.444.1398957286.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-05-01 15:21                         ` Stefan Monnier

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