Re: library for unicode collation in C for texi2any?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2023 17:12:44 +0000 (UTC)
> Cc: pertusus@free.fr, bug-texinfo@gnu.org
> From: Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org>
> 
> 
> > 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.  And note that I said "tailoring", which
is minor adjustments to the general collation, which is based on
character Unicode codepoints.