> Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2026 18:19:50 +0200 > From: Patrice Dumas <[email protected]> > > In the following LL corresponds to a full language specification, with > @documentlanguage, @documentscript and @documentlanguagevariants. > > My feeling is that a dir per language should be the best option in the long > run. A possibility would be to have LL/dir and either an explicit > search path set by the user, or set based on the locale. This would > probably require adding some information on the document language > install-info can get from installed Info manuals. > > It could also be possible to fallback to the english manual in the Info > reader if the language is not found. > > And it could also be useful to have a virtual menu in the Info reader > where all the translations of a manual can be found. > > Note that implementation could wait a bit, as there aren't that many > translated manuals, but I think that it would be nice to have a design > ready. > > comments, thoughts?
I don't understand how this would work, when there are both translated and untranslated manuals on the system. Having LL/dir goes against your previous proposal to have all the manuals in the same directory by appending _LL to the names of the translated manuals. And having several DIR files in the same directory is unsupported by Info readers, so it's a backward-incompatible change. Why not have all of them in the same DIR file? I see no reasons to separate them by language. After all, DIR is just a bookkeeping aid: most users of Info should never see it.
