On Sat, Apr 25, 2026 at 09:55:18AM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > You are right, to cover this case one would need the configuration step > > to filter out manuals with languages for which there is no installed > > locale. With this, the patch I proposed would suffice for people > > compiling Emacs from the source to have the manuals in their languages, > > assuming that they have their language corresponding locale installed. > > No. We want a solution that will enable generation of all the manuals > on any system, provided that it has the necessary txi-LL.tex files > installed. Forcing users who produce manuals to install locales they > don't need for anything else is a solution with a significant > disadvantage, so I would prefer not to adopt it if possible. At least > with UTF-8 encoding of the document, this should be possible without > installing additional locales.
Yes, I agree completely. "Filtering out" languages or "restricting" what manuals texi2dvi can process seems to be pursuing correctness at the expense of providing useful functionality - assuming we could even work out how to do that. Why should users be blocked from processing manuals because they haven't got the required locales installed? I strongly prefer addressing the problem of index sorting with TeX in a locale-independent way.
