Re: texinfo-7.2.91 pretest available

Gavin Smith <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.texinfo.bugs
Message-ID <aY4zMq8zTUJ7NmOy@orangestar>
On Wed, Feb 11, 2026 at 12:34:00AM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2026-02-11 00:10:17 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > On 2026-02-10 10:17:21 +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> > > This is a feature, now no @documentlanguage means that the language is
> > > unspecified. As a side note, previously, the language was already
> > > unspecified for some output formats, see
> > > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2025-03/msg00076.html
> > 
> > What really matters is how this was documented. In GNU Texinfo 7.2:
> > 
> > 14.1 ‘@documentlanguage LL[_CC]’: Set the Document Language
> > ===========================================================
> > [...]
> > [...] If the command is not used at all, the
> > default is ‘en_US’ for US English.
> > 
> > So the developer could expect that no @documentlanguage was equivalent
> > to "@documentlanguage en_US".
> 
> BTW, commit 10ac5a7a852e747a03a8bc3d0f9248c642202837 was incomplete.
> The reference card still documents en_US as being the default. This
> should be changed:

I've changed it.

I'm sceptical that anyone actually looks at the refcard.  The only
time I ever look at it is when I update it for new releases.
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