Re: texinfo-7.2.90 on GNU/Hurd

On Sun, Jan 18, 2026 at 01:22:07PM +0100, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Gavin Smith wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Does texi2any print a warning in this situation? Something like
>   warning: ignoring @documentlanguage because no nontrivial locale is present

It should.  This is someting we discussed in the past:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2025-01/msg00043.html

The message should be
  "Cannot switch to a locale compatible with document strings translations"

I checked that the message is not output when
  POSIX::setlocale(LC_MESSAGES, "en_US.UTF-8");
returns undef.  I will add a slightly different message in that case.

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Pat