Re: dir(Top) is in French ?!?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: David Masterson <dsmasterson@gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 11:29:05 -0700
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> From: David Masterson <dsmasterson@gmail.com>
> >> Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 10:32:20 -0700
> >> 
> >> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> >> 
> >> > This is not an Emacs problem.  This is how the install-info.exe
> >> > program (part of the Texinfo package) works: it localizes these
> >> > introductory instructions to the Info system when it installs Info
> >> > files.
> >> 
> >> I don't have the source code installed, but I don't believe that is
> >> true.
> >
> >>From install-info.c:
> >
> >   desc = open (dirfile, O_RDONLY);
> >   if (desc < 0 && errno == ENOENT)
> >     {
> >       FILE *f;
> >       char *readerr = strerror (errno);
> >       close (desc);
> >       f = fopen (dirfile, "w");
> >       if (f)
> >         {
> >           fprintf (f, _("This is the file .../info/dir, which contains 
> > the\n\
> > topmost node of the Info hierarchy, called (dir)Top.\n\
> > The first time you invoke Info you start off looking at this node.\n\
> > %c\n\
> > %s\tThis is the top of the INFO tree\n\
> > \n\
> > [...]
> >
> > As you probably know, text that is in _() will be replaced by gettext
> > with its localized translation.
> 
> But this only applies if there is *no* dir file.

Yes, exactly like I said.  That's what I think happened on the machine
of whoever created that dir file.

> My problem is that, when there are dir files, the header information
> is pulled from the first dir file in Info-directory-list.

They all are supposed to be identical on a given machine.