`texdoc` search algorithm and language settings

[Zdenek Wagner]

so 5. 11. 2022 v 11:12 odesílatel Werner LEMBERG <wl at gnu.org> napsal:
>
>
> > 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
> ```
>
OK, this makes sense, it is a reasonable subset of Accept-Language.
The full complexity of Accept-Language is not needed.
>
>     Werner

Zdeněk Wagner
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