> Note, that it is unlikely that one will want to process texinfo-file
> without having the appropriate locale in the system.
I disagree. Why is it ``unlikely'' for me to produce a Russian
document? I have all the tools on my system to display, edit, and print
such documents. I can also send them via email.
Because you don't speak Russian, I suppose :)
If you use Russian, I assume you have
a) russian locale on your system
b) you won't be confused if, say, printf will use it for output some
messages.
Otherwise, you probablyy don't want to process texinfo-file in Russian.
The world of single-language systems is dying. It is no longer
appropriate to assume that a given machine supports only a single
language at a time.
Completely agree.
What happens if I want to write a document that uses
several languages in it (like a Hebrew text with commentary in Greek and
German)? There's no single locale that supports that mix.
That's another story. If you use many (more than one) languages in a single
texinfo-file, locale is not sutable. But using of one table for translating
lower-upper case and character comparison is not enough too.
This will require rather big redesign of the whole texindex.
In order to start, we should add support for files written in one language
(English is not counted).
--dima
