[l2h] date format & do_require_package()

[Shigeharu TAKENO]

I read the section "Support for different languages" of the book 
"The LaTeX Web Companion", and I knew the "standard way" to 
change the language of latex2html. 

(1) date format

I have two questions for language and date format.

In default, english.perl (this may be the default language) does
not seems to be loaded, and local date format &'language'_today()
defined in 'language'.perl does not seems to be used. I think it 
is enabled by the following change in the definition of 
&address_data():

  ($user, &get_date($format,$order));

to

  ($user, &do_cmd_today());

However, since english.perl is not loaded, this change make a 
incorrect date format, such as "14, 2002", in default.

Why &'language'_today() is not used ?
Why 'default language'.perl (=english.perl) is not loaded ?

(2) &do_require_package()

I found a small misprint of the book:

  &do_require_package("$LATEX2HTMLSTYLES/german.perl");

should be

  &do_require_package("$LATEX2HTMLSTYLES/german");

or the function do_require_package() defined in latex2html.pin 
should be modified.

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