Re: Notes-Mode package problem (was dir(Top) is in French ?!?)

[David Masterson]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: David Masterson <dsmasterson@gmail.com>
>> Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 10:24:39 -0700
>> 
>> My suggestion is that #1 should be a separate file from the concatenated
>> dir files so that the above issue doesn't happen.  I'm not totally sure,
>> but what appears to me to have happened is that the Notes-Mode package
>> was generated with a dir file that had a header that was in French.
>
> I'd rather guess that it was generated from scratch in a French
> locale.  When there's no previous 'dir', install-info generates it,
> and it uses a localized version of that blurb when it does.
>
>> By moving #1 to a separate Emacs-specific file, the header can be LANG
>> localized as appropriate.
>
> Every dir file is supposed to have that "header".

And the $64K question -- why?  You don't see the problem that I'm
talking about here?

-- 
David Masterson
Programmer At Large