>> > I don't recommend to tailor index sorting for the language >> > indicated by @documentlanguage, either. >> >> This surprises me. Why not? For some languages, the alphabetical >> order differs enormously from English. > > Because indices in a Texinfo document should not depend on details > of how the manual was produced.
Well, if I write a book in German, say, I most definitely want an index sorted with a German collation (there is more than a single one, BTW). This collation should be used regardless of the input encoding. However, ... > And note that I said "tailoring", which is minor adjustments to the > general collation, which is based on character Unicode codepoints. ... there is probably a misunderstanding on my side. I don't know what you mean with 'tailoring', please give an example. Werner