Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org> wrote:
> Are you sure this Werner's request can be fulfilled:
>
> > > I consider it very bad that `texindex` is locale-dependent. IMHO
> > > the proper solution is to make `texinfo.tex` emit a document
> > > encoding statement to the (unsorted) index file that in turn gets
> > > acknowledged by `texindex`.
Sure? No. But I have some thoughts.
> FWIW, I don't even understand how can this be accomplished, unless the
> program reinvents all the library functions that deal with characters
> from scratch, instead of using libc functions (which are
> locale-dependent). And Gawk does use libc functions for that.
The current islower() is
function islower(c)
{
return index("abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz", c) > 0
}
It could instead be
function islower(c)
{
return c ~ /[[:lower:]]/
}
And similar for the others. That would work for any unicode character.
Arnold
