On Mon, May 06, 2019 at 12:18:21PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > We’ve been using this naming scheme for several months now and this is > the only issue we’ve had so far. The standalone Info reader and Emacs > are fine with the .LANG extension.
OK, good. > In fact—but that’s another story—I’d like to suggest improvements so > that the Info readers automatically open ‘dir.LANG’, when available, > instead of just ‘dir’, where LANG is extracted from the current locale. Manual translations may be substandard or out-of-date, so this is something that users should opt into, I think. I believe it is already possible to access translations of manuals by changing INFOPATH, and no alteration of the info browser is needed. For example a French version of a manual could be installed under /usr/share/info/fr/guix.info and the English version as /usr/share/info/guix.info. The user can set INFOPATH to /usr/share/info/fr:/usr/share/info to say they want the French version when possible.
