Re: texinfo-7.2.90 on GNU/Hurd

On Sun, Jan 18, 2026 at 12:11:11PM +0100, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Patrice Dumas wrote:
> > > On Debian 13 GNU/Hurd x86_64 I see 4 test failures:
> > > 
> > > FAIL: test_scripts/formatting_documentlanguage_cmdline.sh
> > > FAIL: test_scripts/layout_formatting_fr.sh
> > > FAIL: test_scripts/layout_formatting_fr_info.sh
> > > FAIL: test_scripts/layout_formatting_fr_icons.sh
> > 
> > I setup a VM and could not reproduce these failures.  One possible issue
> > could be that there are no locales at all in your host, maybe?
> 
> Oh, indeed: In my VM, there is no French locale.
> 
>   $ locale -a
>   C
>   C.utf8
>   POSIX
> 
> I guess the desired outcome in this situation is that the 4 tests get
> SKIPed, not FAIL ?
> 
> Bruno

In a way, they are valid failures, as it shows that translation of document
strings won't work.

texi2any needs a locale other than C, C.UTF-8 or POSIX to translate document
strings when outputting in languages other than English.  (It does not have
be a French locale to translate to French - any locale, like en_US.UTF-8,
would do.)