Re: address@hidden: Bug#113988: makeinfo: locale settings should not influence output files]

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 10:00:55 +0200
> From: Josip Rodin <address@hidden>
> > 
> > So what do you suggest that makeinfo should do instead?  Using the
> > document language instead of the locale language is AFAIK tricky: you
> > still want the warning and error messages to be printed in locale's
> > language, right?
> 
> If LC_MESSAGES is set to something, yeah.
> 
> A generated document's contents shouldn't be influenced by the environment
> of the generator program, otherwise weird mixtures of languages might happen.

These two goals contradict: if LC_MESSAGES is set to something, the
locale-sensitive functions will use that language; switching to the
document language for text output into the generated document is
either impossible or very hard.

Given this contradiction, what is your preferred solution?  Ignore the
locale variables completely?  Having the strings inserted into the
generated document (e.g., names of months produced by @today) be in
plain US English?