Localisation of 'info' isn't working in a UTF-8 locale. This is
apparently intentional, judging from this ChangeLog entry:
2006-08-13 Alexander E. Patrakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* info/man.c (get_manpage_contents), info/info.c (main):
Info apparently assumes equivalence of bytes and characters,
leading to (for example) translated man output in multibyte
locales being broken within a character. In lieu of a
real fix, if MB_CUR_MAX > 1, revert to C. bug-texinfo mail,
07 Aug 2006 14:59:42 +0600.
(The referenced email is this one:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2006-08/msg00001.html
The two links in that mail are broken, and I haven't found where
they should point to. Especially the first one would be
interesting, with screenshots showing the problem.)
If this bug is so serious that it warrants disabling localisation
for 'info' completely, then just about the whole translation of
texinfo is useless (because UTF-8 locales are slowly becoming
ubiquitous in distros) and texinfo should in my opinion be removed
from the Translation Project, to not let translators do pointless
work.
But when I remove the 'if MB_CUR_MAX > 1...' statement, the Dutch
and Spanish localisations are working fine for me. (But then, those
languages don't need many multibyte characters, and I wouldn't
think of using 'info' to read man pages.) Can't a solution be found
to switch off localisation only for specific languages or only when
showing man pages?
Benno
