Re: library for unicode collation in C for texi2any?

[Werner LEMBERG]

>> > I don't recommend to tailor index sorting for the language
>> > indicated by @documentlanguage, either.
>> 
>> This surprises me.  Why not?  For some languages, the alphabetical
>> order differs enormously from English.
> 
> Because indices in a Texinfo document should not depend on details
> of how the manual was produced.

Well, if I write a book in German, say, I most definitely want an
index sorted with a German collation (there is more than a single one,
BTW).  This collation should be used regardless of the input encoding.
However, ...

> And note that I said "tailoring", which is minor adjustments to the
> general collation, which is based on character Unicode codepoints.

... there is probably a misunderstanding on my side.  I don't know
what you mean with 'tailoring', please give an example.


    Werner