>> * I think it would be OK if the documentation says that i18n >> support for sorting only works with awk programs that understand >> `LANG`. > > Gawk understands and uses any LC_* and LANG variables that Posix > requires, if Gawk uses glibc. Otherwise you depend on the > particular library, and no one says that all of them use the same > collation order that glibc does, for the same locale.
Well... > You assume that for every encoding in an Info document every user > will have the corresponding locale installed and supported by the > local libc? Well... > (And it isn't only the language, it's also the codeset -- which I'm > sure you know.) Again, I think it's OK if i18n support only works with glibc and similarly capable C libraries – provided this is well documented and probably shown in the output of `--version`. Right now, there is *no* i18n support in `texindex`. With some small changes, there would be *full* support for a particular but important set of OSes. Not too bad IMHO. It's up to the maintainers of texinfo to decide where to draw the support line, but honestly, I can't imagine that they want to enter the muddy waters of collation support for all platforms. Werner