[texinfo-pretest] Problems with human language translations

[Torsten Bronger]

Hallöchen!

karl at freefriends.org (Karl Berry) writes:

> [...]
>
>     LANG because @documentlanguage is not interpreted correctly.
>     
> I'm confused.  @documentlanguage has nothing to do how program
> messages are translated, which is all we're talking about here,
> right?

Well, both.  I have to use LANG and LC_ALL because makeinfo
intertwines the online messages and the insertions like "Next" or
"See " in the output.

> [...]
>
> The problem with @documentlanguage is that makeinfo should be
> smart enough to distinguish text used in the document (like the
> "see" from @pxref) from the program messages (like --help output).
> But supporting two different languages like that is, as you say,
> not trivial.

gettext 0.15 is supposed to help us with this.  It isn't released
yet.

Tschö,
Torsten.

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