Re: Language menu in the HTML manual

[André A . Gomes]

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

>> Is that what the icon is supposed to do? If possible, the links should
>> go to the same page in the other language, but that might be
>> difficult.
>
> Yes.  What makes it difficult is that Texinfo transliterates node names
> to ASCII (which I find imperialistic and ridiculous, or at least
> anachronistic):

While I understand your intention, that might be too harsh.  Are you
aware of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punycode?

> Probably the easiest (and ugliest?) way to fix it would be to view the
> transliteration algorithm as a black box and to implement a mapping from
> node names to file names, similar to the indexes computed in
> ‘doc/build.scm’.

Yes, and transliteration rules change over time too.  


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André A. Gomes
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