On Thu, Mar 09, 2023 at 09:01:08AM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > There may be some need to modify texi2any more generally (for > > example for upper casing, for locale dependent index keys sorting, > > maybe for line breaking in Info output). There may be some trouble > > with presentation of index split by letter too. > > > > > The letter-case > > > issues in that locale can easily break many applications that don't > > > expect case-fiddling of ASCII characters to produce non-ASCII > > > characters. > > > > I do not think that it matters in texi2any (and for perl character > > strings more generally). > > It could matter if texi2any up-cases some text that includes 'i', > e.g. for case-insensitive comparison or for producing text that must > be in upper case, like commands for some network protocol. E.g., what > happens with sorting the index entries of a Texinfo manual?
The Unicode::Collate perl module is used for sorting. The Unicode::Collate::Locale package could be used in the future. When sorting by letter, then the first letter has to be determined, upper-cased. This is probably not well done for now. -- Pat
