> Am I understanding it correctly that with this plus the already > merged https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/merge_requests/1715, > we don't need the Autoconf UTF-8 locale searching stuff anymore, at > least for now?
Correct. I've already cleaned up all index entries in previous commits so that `texindex` might produce incorrect but not invalid output (irrespective of the underlying AWK implementation). I will remove that locale commit from the MR so that we can proceed with switching to luatex after it is applied to master. In the long run, however, it would be good to have correctly sorted indices in the non-English manuals. AFAIK, and assuming that `texindex` is eventually capable of doing that, we will need UTF-8 locales for that, because virtually all programs, irrespective of the OS, rely on a platform's locale data for collation support. If you ever have to work with locales, I strongly recommend to read the excellent documentation of Perl's locale support, which essentially covers all aspects you will ever encounter, and most of its information is not related to Perl only. https://perldoc.perl.org/perllocale Werner
