On Thu, Apr 16, 2026 at 07:20:27PM +0100, Gavin Smith wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 15, 2026 at 11:54:56PM +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Currently, @documentlanguage unknown main language or region are used
> > in texi2any, with a warning.  Should an unknown language or region be
> > ignored instead?
> > 
> > On the one hand, maybe the user is doing it on purpose, for example she
> > could have redefined the documentlanguage formatting with the HTML
> > customization API.  On the other hand it is likely that language support
> > will be poor.  Maybe it does not matter, there is a warning, therefore
> > there should not be any user expectation.
> > 
> > I do not have a clear idea on what should be best, Any recommendation?
> 
> Surely it is possible that new document languages or regions are added
> after the user's released version of Texinfo, which can only recognise
> a fixed list of codes.  If users want to use codes that were added
> after their version of Texinfo was released, we shouldn't stop them.
> 
> It's fine to warn if they use an unrecognised code (as the chance of
> it being a mistake is quite high), but it would seem completely wrong
> to me to stop users from using language codes just because they weren't
> recognised at release time.

Ok.

-- 
Pat

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