From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: dir(Top) is in French ?!? Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 21:50:27 +0300 Message-ID: <83y4ypmgp8.fsf@gnu.org> References: <86vbtup2ko.fsf@gmail.com> <867g695pi3.fsf@gmail.com> <8661lt71fy.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1398711059 29392 80.91.229.3 (28 Apr 2014 18:50:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 18:50:59 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 28 20:50:52 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Weqdf-00008u-4m for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Apr 2014 20:50:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45473 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Weqde-00057R-P2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Apr 2014 14:50:50 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52971) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WeqdJ-00057G-FO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Apr 2014 14:50:35 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WeqdD-0003v5-ES for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Apr 2014 14:50:29 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:48716) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WeqdD-0003ut-6D for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Apr 2014 14:50:23 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0N4R00I007Y2CK00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Apr 2014 21:50:22 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0N4R00I5Z8BX4M60@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Apr 2014 21:50:22 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <8661lt71fy.fsf@gmail.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:97432 Archived-At: > From: David Masterson > Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 11:29:05 -0700 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > >> From: David Masterson > >> Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 10:32:20 -0700 > >> > >> Eli Zaretskii writes: > >> > >> > This is not an Emacs problem. This is how the install-info.exe > >> > program (part of the Texinfo package) works: it localizes these > >> > introductory instructions to the Info system when it installs Info > >> > files. > >> > >> I don't have the source code installed, but I don't believe that is > >> true. > > > >>From install-info.c: > > > > desc = open (dirfile, O_RDONLY); > > if (desc < 0 && errno == ENOENT) > > { > > FILE *f; > > char *readerr = strerror (errno); > > close (desc); > > f = fopen (dirfile, "w"); > > if (f) > > { > > fprintf (f, _("This is the file .../info/dir, which contains the\n\ > > topmost node of the Info hierarchy, called (dir)Top.\n\ > > The first time you invoke Info you start off looking at this node.\n\ > > %c\n\ > > %s\tThis is the top of the INFO tree\n\ > > \n\ > > [...] > > > > As you probably know, text that is in _() will be replaced by gettext > > with its localized translation. > > But this only applies if there is *no* dir file. Yes, exactly like I said. That's what I think happened on the machine of whoever created that dir file. > My problem is that, when there are dir files, the header information > is pulled from the first dir file in Info-directory-list. They all are supposed to be identical on a given machine.