> From: Vincent Belaïche <[email protected]>
> CC: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, "[email protected]"
> <[email protected]>, "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
> Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:53:15 +0000
>
> Coming back to the patch I am proposing, you are arguing that it is not
> good because it relies on the installed locales. I think that this is
> not a problem of the proposed patch but of the awk based texindex that
> is limited to installed locale. I am expecting that if someone wants to
> compile a document for their own language, they have the corresponding
> locale installed.
This assumption is incorrect, because it ignores the possibility that
the manual is generated as part of building Emacs, in which case the
locale in which this is done could have nothing to do with French.
> So, in a nutshell, the root cause is that texindex is dependant on
> installed locales for sorting, and I would like to react to your
> (Gavin's) comment about rewriting texindex.
I think Gavin already showed how to solve this: by using {..}. That
doesn't require rewriting texindex.
