On Tue, Feb 10, 2026 at 04:00:17AM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2026-02-06 17:32:16 +0000, Gavin Smith wrote: > > The next pretest distribution for the next Texinfo release (7.3) has been > > uploaded to > > > > https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-7.2.91.tar.xz > > I've tested the Debian/experimental package. > > > * Language > [...] > > . if there is no @documentlanguage, the language is unspecified, rather > > than en_US. (texi2any will still use English strings by default, > > but will not put en_US in the output, depending on output format.) > > This is problematic, because until now, the default language was > the English one. So this will break current manuals that do not > use @documentlanguage (because it was useless). In particular, > Firefox is sensitive to the lang HTML attribute, and without > @documentlanguage, one gets lang="", which means that Firefox > will no longer choose the Latin script (I got inconsistent font > settings until I reconfigured them in Firefox). There is a bug > in Firefox:
I did not get the same result as you when I tested in Firefox. This is with Firefox 142.0 (64-bit) on Linux Mint. I had to set lang to an unknown value (e.g. "xxx") to get the Other Writing Systems fonts.
