On Fri, Feb 02, 2024 at 08:57:01AM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > An alternative is not to have such a variable but just to have an option > > to collate according to the user's locale. Then the user would run e.g. > > "LC_COLLATE=ll_LL.UTF-8 texi2any ..." to use collation from the ll_LL.UTF-8 > > locale. They would have to have the locale installed that was appropriate > > for whichever manual they were processing (assuming the "variable weighting" > > option is appropriate.) > > What would be the default then, though? AFAIR, we decided by default > to use en_US.utf-8 for collation, with the purpose of making the > sorting locale-independent by default, so that Info manuals produced > with the default settings are identical regardless of the user's > locale.
I agree that sorting should be locale-independent by default.
