`texdoc` search algorithm and language settings

Werner LEMBERG wl at gnu.org
Sat Nov 5 11:12:03 CET 2022


> good to know, Can you implement in texdoc.cnf something similar to
> Accept-Language as used on the web? For instance, my mother tongue is
> Czech and I can easily read the documentation in Slovak, English,
> Russian, Hindi, Danish, Norwegian (bokmål prefered to nynorsk),
> Swedish but not in German, French, Spanish, Greek. Everybody has
> different preferences.

I suggest that texdoc uses the standard POSIX mechanism for that:

```
LANGUAGE=sk:en:ru:hi:da:nb:nn:sv
```


    Werner



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