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Re: Language menu in the HTML manual
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pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) |
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Re: Language menu in the HTML manual |
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Wed, 19 Jan 2022 22:14:52 +0100 |
On Wed, Jan 19, 2022 at 03:48:07PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Commit fa580bf3b456273ebbbba20b3f4de1afdac3d031 should fix that. It
> also introduces the navigation bar as found on the Guix web site; I
> didn’t plan to do that, but that sorta came with the rest, so…
You accomplished quite a feat there, thank you!
> Yes. What makes it difficult is that Texinfo transliterates node names
> to ASCII (which I find imperialistic and ridiculous, or at least
> anachronistic):
The Text::Unidecode script [1], which Texinfo uses, says
> The Text::Unidecode motto is:
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> It's better than nothing!
IMHO rightly so. Transliteration is important for security. Proper
transliteration is unreasonable.
Regards,
Florian
[1]
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/texinfo.git/tree/tp/maintain/lib/Text-Unidecode/lib/Text/Unidecode.pm