Re: revisiting passing language information to Info
Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> Sun, 03 May 2026 17:23:27 +0300
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> Date: Sun, 3 May 2026 16:04:09 +0200 > From: Patrice Dumas <[email protected]> > > Hello, > > Now that we have more information on language, I think that passing the > language information to Info should be revisited. Independently, I > think that the language information at the end of the preamble should be > used, same as for other format. > > Regatding passing the information on the language, I can think of 3 > possibilities: > > 1) pass a BCP 47 lang tag. This is what is used in the other output formats > 2) pass an XPG locale (probably not the best choice right now given > that some information is lost, but we could count on future changes in > XPG locales) > 3) pass the documentlanguage, documentscript and documentvariant > separately each in its Info variable > > Any preference? If people doing the Info readers implementations could > chime in that would be best... What is expected that the Info reader will do with this information?