Re: texinfo-7.2.91 pretest available

On Tue, Feb 10, 2026 at 04:00:17AM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2026-02-06 17:32:16 +0000, Gavin Smith wrote:
> > The next pretest distribution for the next Texinfo release (7.3) has been
> > uploaded to
> > 
> > https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-7.2.91.tar.xz
> 
> I've tested the Debian/experimental package.
> 
> > * Language
> [...]
> >   . if there is no @documentlanguage, the language is unspecified, rather
> >     than en_US.  (texi2any will still use English strings by default,
> >     but will not put en_US in the output, depending on output format.)
> 
> This is problematic, because until now, the default language was
> the English one. So this will break current manuals that do not
> use @documentlanguage (because it was useless). In particular,
> Firefox is sensitive to the lang HTML attribute, and without
> @documentlanguage, one gets lang="", which means that Firefox
> will no longer choose the Latin script (I got inconsistent font
> settings until I reconfigured them in Firefox). There is a bug
> in Firefox:

I did not get the same result as you when I tested in Firefox.  This
is with Firefox 142.0 (64-bit) on Linux Mint.  I had to set lang to
an unknown value (e.g. "xxx") to get the Other Writing Systems fonts.