On Wed, May 27, 2026 at 02:57:56PM +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote: > Hello, > > The next step of removal of call to Perl code is for reproducible > transliteration. It would be possible to translate the Perl code in C, > but I would prefer not to, as I think we should not implement > transliteration ourselves, but use existing libraries. Instead, I would > like to simplify how transliteration is done in Perl. > > Here is my proposal: > > * in HTML, do not use transliteration for internal index and index > letter targets
As I remember, there was less use of transliteration by default after Texinfo 7.3. It is fine to use it even less. > * only use Text::Unidecode for transliteration in Perl and always use it > if there is some transliteration, remove the USE_UNIDECODE customization I'm happy for USE_UNIDECODE to be removed. Would Text::Unicode still be used by default anywhere? > * change tests such that transliteration is only tested for cases > were all the iconv and Text::Unidecode give the same result > > -- > Pat >
