On Wed, Feb 11, 2026 at 12:34:00AM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2026-02-11 00:10:17 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > On 2026-02-10 10:17:21 +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote: > > > This is a feature, now no @documentlanguage means that the language is > > > unspecified. As a side note, previously, the language was already > > > unspecified for some output formats, see > > > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2025-03/msg00076.html > > > > What really matters is how this was documented. In GNU Texinfo 7.2: > > > > 14.1 ‘@documentlanguage LL[_CC]’: Set the Document Language > > =========================================================== > > [...] > > [...] If the command is not used at all, the > > default is ‘en_US’ for US English. > > > > So the developer could expect that no @documentlanguage was equivalent > > to "@documentlanguage en_US". > > BTW, commit 10ac5a7a852e747a03a8bc3d0f9248c642202837 was incomplete. > The reference card still documents en_US as being the default. This > should be changed:
I've changed it. I'm sceptical that anyone actually looks at the refcard. The only time I ever look at it is when I update it for new releases.
