On Sun, Dec 31, 2023 at 03:08:22PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > We have current-iso639-language, but its value is a 2-letter string, > the first 2 characters of the locale's name. So I think this should > be a new variable, and Info-documentlanguage sounds like a good > candidate.
Done in commit 85091d47f (2023-12-31). > > There is the minor question of what to do if a document has more than > > one @documentlanguage directive, but if that is the case, we can take > > the first one that occurs, or the last, or none at all, whichever is > > easiest. > > If this becomes an issue in Info manuals, we could extend the > Info-documentlanguage variable to have values that are not just a > single string, but, say, a list of elements of the form > > (LANG START END) > > where START and END are character positions for the region whose > language is LANG. But I'd wait with such complications until they > become a real problem. Yes, agreed. The document language is barely needed for Info output as it is and multi-language manuals are rare to non-existent. If it is a genuine problem then a user could split their document into separate Info files.
