On 2026-02-11 17:26:35 +0000, Gavin Smith wrote: > On Tue, Feb 10, 2026 at 11:50:48PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > Yes, as Patrice explains the current behaviour is a deliberate choice. > > > (It's wrong to term it a "regression".) > > > > The fact is that until now, lang="en" was generated by default, > > and this has changed, introducing a silent bug in manuals where > > @documentlanguage isn't used (in particular because it was not > > needed for manuals in English). It would be much better to have > > @documentlanguage required[*] so that developers can notice the > > issue with new texinfo versions and fix it. > > > > [*] possibly allowing an empty value for developers who do not > > want to specify a language (though I currently do not see a > > reason for that). > > It would not be better in my opinion as it would break users' documents > for a very minor reason. There's no harm as far as I am aware in not > specifying the language for documents in English. I hardly see how it > can be termed a "bug" in those documents.
It can yield issues for the HTML version in Firefox (it did for me). -- Vincent Lefèvre <[email protected]> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Pascaline project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
