On Mon, 3 Apr 2000, Dmitry Sivachenko wrote:
> Note, that it is unlikely that one will want to process texinfo-file
> without having the appropriate locale in the system.
I disagree. Why is it ``unlikely'' for me to produce a Russian
document? I have all the tools on my system to display, edit, and print
such documents. I can also send them via email.
The world of single-language systems is dying. It is no longer
appropriate to assume that a given machine supports only a single
language at a time. What happens if I want to write a document that uses
several languages in it (like a Hebrew text with commentary in Greek and
German)? There's no single locale that supports that mix.
> Not to interfere with functions such as printf, etc, one could switch
> to some new locale just before we need it, call locale-aware functions
> where it is necessary and then switch back to "C" locale.
This doesn't really work, because some library function can call printf
internally, without your knowledge.
