On Fri, Apr 10, 2026 at 12:52:37PM +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote: > > I think it would be fine to recognize and accept @MODIFIER suffixes as > > you suggest, but it would probably be safer not to do anything with it, > > unless or until we are aware of the practical implications. This could > > come from users of the Serbian language, for example. > > After reading some BCP 47 related information, such as > https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr35/tr35-76/tr35.html > I am now wondering if we should not have instead a way to specify the > script, directly, like > > @documentscript latin > > and construct a locale with @modifier for gettext translation retrieval, > but also construct a BCP 47 locale name for HTML, DocBook and possibly other > purposes.
I like that idea better, as, on reflection, we have too much tricky code in texinfo.tex already and that would be much easier to implement in texinfo.tex.
