> From: arn...@skeeve.com > Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2022 06:33:33 -0700 > Cc: arn...@skeeve.com > > Hi. > > Thanks for the report. As written, texindex is indeed suitable only > for English; when I wrote it ~ 9 years ago, nobody said anything about > support for other languages. > > I think this can be remedied, although there may be issues with > awk versions besides gawk as most don't support Unicode or other > multibyte character sets.
Are you sure this Werner's request can be fulfilled: > > I consider it very bad that `texindex` is locale-dependent. IMHO > > the proper solution is to make `texinfo.tex` emit a document > > encoding statement to the (unsorted) index file that in turn gets > > acknowledged by `texindex`. FWIW, I don't even understand how can this be accomplished, unless the program reinvents all the library functions that deal with characters from scratch, instead of using libc functions (which are locale-dependent). And Gawk does use libc functions for that.
