On Sun, May 03, 2026 at 05:23:27PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Sun, 3 May 2026 16:04:09 +0200
> > From: Patrice Dumas <[email protected]>
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Now that we have more information on language, I think that passing the
> > language information to Info should be revisited.  Independently, I
> > think that the language information at the end of the preamble should be
> > used, same as for other format.
> > 
> > Regatding passing the information on the language, I can think of 3
> > possibilities:
> > 
> > 1) pass a BCP 47 lang tag.  This is what is used in the other output formats
> > 2) pass an XPG locale (probably not the best choice right now given
> >    that some information is lost, but we could count on future changes in
> >    XPG locales)
> > 3) pass the documentlanguage, documentscript and documentvariant
> >    separately each in its Info variable
> > 
> > Any preference?  If people doing the Info readers implementations could
> > chime in that would be best...
> 
> What is expected that the Info reader will do with this information?

It is expected to use it to use strings for cross-references and similar
using the language of the Info file:
 https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-texinfo/2023-12/msg00013.html
For example, "veja" in portuguese instead of "see".

-- 
Pat

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