On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 04:36:08PM +0200, Norbert Preining wrote: > Please be specific. Are you talking about character encodings?
No, not at all. The introductory text in the DIR file is in Russian, or more specifically in ru_RU.UTF-8, and this has nothing to do with the system configuration. Perhaps I should explain the meaning of the LANGUAGE environment variable (it's a GNU extension). My setting "bg:mk:ru:sr:ro" means: Use Bulgarian if available, Macedonian as second choice; then fallback to Russian, Serbian and Romanian, respectively. If neither of these is available, use the C locale. Other users of the host use different locales. bg_BG.UTF-8 is the system locale, because the two admins are Bulgarian and most of the users are Bulgarian (so new users don't have to setup their locale; the system locale is assumed by default). It doesn't mean that all users prefer Bulgarian, so when they do C-h i in Emacs, it's surprsising for them. > I still don't understand what you mean with "recreated in German" or > "recreated in Russian". Apparently the introductory text of the DIR file is marked as a translatable string in install-info, so a translation is used for its recreation, when available. I don't think that's a good idea, and even if we assume that I don't understand the concept of a "system locale", I honestly don't think that /usr/share/info/dir should appear in a language that is merely my personal "fallback" preference. > Can you please send me one dir file "Recreated in Russian", plus > then unset all specific variable (LANGUAGE LC_*) and recreate and > send that, too. If I unset these variables, it'll be in English, naturally. I don't want to unset them every time I do an upgrade. The install-info program should do that. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
