On Sun, May 03, 2026 at 03:55:20PM +0000, Vincent Belaïche wrote: > Dear Gavin, > Thank you for the great job. I tried it on ses-fr.texi (=some part of Emacs > documentation translated to French) and it compiles with no error although > LC_ALL is set to C. I attached what I get for the index, it looks a bit > unususal, but it is ok IMHO. > > Vincent.
I do not understand why you get the headings "À" and "É" in the index. In my testing the index entries beginning with "à" and "é" were placed under "A" and "E" sections respectively. > > PS : On my side I have drafted some evolution of Emacs configure script in > order to enable ses-fr.texi compilation when texinfo.tex version is old > enough. FYI, see > https://cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/log/?h=scratch/translations-of-manuals > What I do is extract the version of texinfo.tex and compare it to > 2026-04-01.0 (actually this should be 2026-04-26.12), and if it is >= then fr > is included into the DOCLANGS list which is a list of languages for which > manual are compiled. > > > > ________________________________ > De : Gavin Smith <[email protected]> > Envoyé : dimanche 26 avril 2026 14:29 > À : Vincent Belaïche <[email protected]> > Cc : Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]>; > [email protected] <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]> > Objet : Re: texi2dvi not passing locale to texindex > > On Fri, Apr 24, 2026 at 07:20:35PM +0000, Vincent Belaïche wrote: > > Dear Eli & Gavin, > > > > The fix proposed by Gavin is IMHO sufficient for French. So if there is > > a release of Texinfo with this fix in txi-fr.tex, I would be quite happy > > as this would allow us to include ses-fr.texi into the set of compiled > > manuals, which was the object of the original emacs-devel discussion > > that triggered this thread. > > I've made the changes I proposed to texinfo.tex and have changed the default > sort strings used for most of the accented characters in the Latin-1 block. > (commit 836b8924560, 2026-04-26). This should cover nearly all of the > characters used for French. > > There is still the possibility to make changes in the translation files > (like txi-fr.tex) as well, although these would take longer to become > prevalent among users than changes to the base texinfo.tex file. > >
