[l2h] date format for each language

[Shigeharu TAKENO]

I am using latex2html-2K.1beta and helping to make a "Japanized 
patch" of it (including "japanese.perl").

Each WWW page made by late2html has "date" at the bottom, when
the page is made. The default date format is as "2000-07-16",
which is given the function &get_date() (in &address_data()). 

Local date format for each language is supported as the function 
&'language'_today() in the 'language'.perl script, but it seems 
to be unused.

To use this, I changed the last line of &address_data() as 
following:

    ($user, &get_date($format,$order));
==> ($user, &do_cmd_today());

This seems to work well except a problem. 

In the user side, changing the 'language' of the WWW page should 
be done in ~/.latex2html-init, or by latex2html command line 
option, I think. In the current version of latex2html, we may 
use the first one, that is, we may write in ~/.latex2html-init as
following:

  #$default_language = 'english';
  $default_language = 'japanese';
  #$TITLES_LANGUAGE = 'english';
  $TITLES_LANGUAGE = 'japanese';

However, when &do_cmd_today() is used, these variables keep the 
default values which are defined in l2hconf.pm, so, we can not 
change the 'language' of the date string by the setting above 
in the user side. 

I think this is similar problem to one which I posted last month
as "Subject: [l2h] To choose icon image format", that is, it does 
not seem that we can change several features by command line 
option or by ~/.latex2html-init file completely, and several 
variables are already used before setting by user unfortunately.

To fix it, I only know the (dirty) way to make two latex2html 
for English and for Japanese which use different l2hconf.pm.
This can be also applied to the problem "To choose icon image 
format", but it is not smart.

Please tell me the simple way to fix them.

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 Shigeharu TAKENO     NIigata Institute of Technology
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