Norbert Preining wrote:
From NEWS.Debian:
* Please not that [...]
^^^
Should read "Please note" ;-) Otherwise, this seems good to me.
[...] with release 4.8-7 the behaviour of makeinfo with respect
to locales has changed. Up to 4.8-6 the locale settings of the calling
On Fre, 10 Mär 2006, Sven Joachim wrote:
> Norbert Preining wrote:
> Fine with me, but consider the possibility that a few people
> might have actually relied on the "feature" that the locale
> settings changed the translation of keywords; they may now
> need to test for the texinfo version. Menti
Will this patch also be applied upstream?
Some variation thereof.
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Norbert Preining wrote:
old_locale = setlocale(LC_ALL, NULL);
save_locale = strdup (old_locale);
xstrdup is recommended.
You see that I'm unfamiliar with the texinfo source, I did
not know that it has its own version of strdup. ;-)
Ok, next version of texinfo will include this patch.
F
On Die, 07 Mär 2006, preining wrote:
> Short description: makeinfo: locale settings should not influence output
> files
Here is an updated patch including Svens fixed locale hack and Karls
xstrdup vs strdup.
Still missing: Setting the interface_language global variable from the
cm_documentlanguag
On Don, 09 Mär 2006, Sven Joachim wrote:
> The libc info page for setlocale tells you what's wrong with it:
Ahhh, thanks.
> old_locale = setlocale(LC_ALL, NULL);
> save_locale = strdup (old_locale);
xstrdup is recommended.
Ok, next version of texinfo will include this patch.
Best wishes
N
Norbert Preining wrote:
1) The header of the info files is in German:
Dies ist
fixed.
Can you send a patch?
2) Error messages by makeinfo are printed in English, which I noticed by
running "makeinfo --html" from the lispref directory in the Emacs
sources.
Hmm, this is strange, ver
Hi Sven, hi all!
On Mit, 08 Mär 2006, Sven Joachim wrote:
> When do you sleep, Norbert? ;-)
Debian is more important than sleep!!!
(THis was targeted to my Application Manager ;-)
Seriously, I am currently in Japan, +0900 from GMT, this might explain a bit ;-)
> 1) The header of the info files
Norbert Preining wrote:
If you generate html, do you have "nächstes" or "Next"?
With the unpatched version, I got "nächstes", with your patch
I got "Next". But I also got makeinfo's error messages in English.
Maybe make info used a unpatched makeinfo?
I think I double-checked that it didn
When do you sleep, Norbert? ;-)
Norbert Preining wrote:
Next version of the patch, please comment on it.
Still missing: The transition from documentlanguage ->
interface_language and the extension of language codes from de to de_DE
etc.
On Die, 07 Mär 2006, Sven Joachim wrote:
With LANG=de_D
Norbert Preining wrote:
On Die, 07 Mär 2006, Sven Joachim wrote:
thanks a lot for working on this! I tried out your patch, but
for my testcase, which is the Emacs Lisp Reference Manual in
Emacs CVS (available for Debian in the emacs-snapshot package),
it had no effect. :-(
Can you send me th
Next version of the patch, please comment on it.
Still missing: The transition from documentlanguage ->
interface_language and the extension of language codes from de to de_DE
etc.
On Die, 07 Mär 2006, Sven Joachim wrote:
> With LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 and running "make info" from the Emacs top
> level
Hi Karl!
One more thing I forgot:
On Die, 07 Mär 2006, Karl Berry wrote:
> but how to expand the 2 letter code to a full setting?
>
> Well, although I see the manual says a two-letter code, clearly that is
> not completely correct, although I don't recall anyone writing to me
> about it. If
On Die, 07 Mär 2006, Sven Joachim wrote:
> thanks a lot for working on this! I tried out your patch, but
> for my testcase, which is the Emacs Lisp Reference Manual in
> Emacs CVS (available for Debian in the emacs-snapshot package),
> it had no effect. :-(
Can you send me the input file tar.gz fo
Hi Sven!
On Die, 07 Mär 2006, Sven Joachim wrote:
> thanks a lot for working on this! I tried out your patch, but
> for my testcase, which is the Emacs Lisp Reference Manual in
> Emacs CVS (available for Debian in the emacs-snapshot package),
> it had no effect. :-(
If you generate html, do you h
Maybe make info used a unpatched makeinfo?
Info output must not and does not translate Next: and so on, because
they are effectively keywords -- Info readers would stop working if they
were translated. Norbert's patch changed the HTML output, which is
fine.
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but what I did is the following:
Wow, thanks!!
I tested the attached patch against texinfo/makeinfo 4.8 and it worked,
Please say exactly how you tested it, ie, which environment variables
you set to what, what the makeinfo invocation was, what the input file
was. I have had a great dea
Hello Norbert,
thanks a lot for working on this! I tried out your patch, but
for my testcase, which is the Emacs Lisp Reference Manual in
Emacs CVS (available for Debian in the emacs-snapshot package),
it had no effect. :-(
With LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 and running "make info" from the Emacs top
level d
Dear Karl, dear all!
Short description: makeinfo: locale settings should not influence output
files
Long description:
see http://bugs.debian.org/113988
You already mention in the TODO file that it would be good to use the
document language instead of LANG for translating some messages (l
Norbert Preining wrote:
AFAIS there is nothing wrong with makeinfo.
I strongly disagree with that and support Yann's and Josip's point of
view in their messages for #113988.
You could have a wishlist that makeinfo ignores the locales, but
this could also be a conscious decision of the author
Hi all!
On Son, 05 Mär 2006, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> This texinfo bug has further ramifications:
[texinfo and locales]
Ok, I picked up the bug and tried to understand. It is *really* old.
AFAIS there is nothing wrong with makeinfo. You could have a wishlist
that makeinfo ignores the locales, but
Hi Norbert!
This texinfo bug has further ramifications:
On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 10:45:52AM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
> Package: devscripts
> Version: 2.9.15
> Severity: normal
>
> It is sad but true, the locale settings can have an influence on the output
> of info files due to a bug in makeinf
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