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Subject: Re: dir(Top) is in French ?!?
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>>> > I refer you to what I wrote earlier: this "localization" is IMO broken
>>> > by design, but that does happen to be the design.  So one needs to
>>> > talk to the designer.
>>> Agreed.  I think a good "fix" would be to allow "dir" files to only
>>> contain entries without the general header.
>> Which means they couldn't be produced by install-info, but by some
>> other means.
> Of course, this would require changes to install-info, Emacs, and the
> standalone info reader.

Actually, ELPA Info files are currently not accessible to the standalone
reader without extra work, so we could implement this as an
Emacs-only hack.


        Stefan