From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: karl@freefriends.org (Karl Berry) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.comp.tex.texinfo.general Subject: Re: [help-texinfo] Re: coding systems vs. info files Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 18:13:27 -0600 Message-ID: <200602110013.k1B0DRH23757@f7.net> References: <873biscpjr.fsf@jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1139616887 32662 80.91.229.6 (11 Feb 2006 00:14:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 00:14:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-texinfo@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 11 01:14:31 2006 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1F7iPE-0008A7-00 for ; Sat, 11 Feb 2006 01:14:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F7iPD-0000Ru-KP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 19:14:27 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F7iON-0000QM-4r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 19:13:35 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F7iOL-0000Pz-Gu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 19:13:33 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F7iOK-0000Ps-JH; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 19:13:32 -0500 Original-Received: from [64.34.169.74] (helo=f7.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1F7iSD-0005EG-0m; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 19:17:33 -0500 X-Envelope-From: karl@freefriends.org X-Envelope-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Received: (from karl@localhost) by f7.net (8.11.7-20030920/8.11.7) id k1B0DRH23757; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 18:13:27 -0600 Original-To: juri@jurta.org In-Reply-To: <873biscpjr.fsf@jurta.org> 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:50340 gmane.comp.tex.texinfo.general:781 Archived-At: the `Local Variables' section too far from the end of the Info file, so Emacs can't find it. Because the tag table is huge, I would guess? Or is there some other reason? Can someone point me to the problematic Texinfo file? It seems like makeinfo should ignore LANG for the most part, 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.) Meanwhile, using LANG for output means that at least it is possible to get those boilerplate fragments in (say) French for a French document. and just use the language the texinfo BTW, Texinfo has @documentlanguage and @documentencoding commands. It doesn't try to "guess" anything. The coding: tag reflects the @documentencoding. If there is no @documentencoding, there will be no coding: tag. I don't think it has any way of knowing what encoding the translation for language XX used. karl