From: "André A. Gomes" <andremegafone@gmail.com>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Language menu in the HTML manual
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2022 18:39:08 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lezbbuqr.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8735ljbx3s.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic Courtès"'s message of "Wed, 19 Jan 2022 15:48:07 +0100")
Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
>> Is that what the icon is supposed to do? If possible, the links should
>> go to the same page in the other language, but that might be
>> difficult.
>
> Yes. What makes it difficult is that Texinfo transliterates node names
> to ASCII (which I find imperialistic and ridiculous, or at least
> anachronistic):
While I understand your intention, that might be too harsh. Are you
aware of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punycode?
> Probably the easiest (and ugliest?) way to fix it would be to view the
> transliteration algorithm as a black box and to implement a mapping from
> node names to file names, similar to the indexes computed in
> ‘doc/build.scm’.
Yes, and transliteration rules change over time too.
--
André A. Gomes
"Free Thought, Free World"
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-01-19 16:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-01-18 23:53 Language menu in the HTML manual Ludovic Courtès
2022-01-19 9:11 ` Julien Lepiller
2022-01-19 14:48 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-01-19 15:39 ` André A. Gomes [this message]
2022-01-19 21:14 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2022-01-20 10:29 ` Andreas Enge
2022-01-24 15:11 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-01-26 9:18 ` Andreas Enge
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