On Thu, Feb 06, 2025 at 08:42:38PM +0000, Gavin Smith wrote: > Well, I checked the sources of Texinfo 4.13 and transliterate_file_names > appears to be off by default: > > I checked Texinfo 5.2 (September 2013) and it was on by default for that > release, with 'TRANSLITERATE_FILE_NAMES' => 1 in %defaults in > tp/Texinfo/Convert/HTML.pm.
5.0 too. > So apparently the default setting changed with Texinfo 5, without > a corresponding change to the documentation. At that time some (most of the) discussion was between me and Karl only as texi2html was to replace makeinfo. I found two leads on some agreement on the change (around 2012), but no definitive proof: * a patch I send to Karl, removing some text about --transliterate-file-names in the manual * we discuss the 250 limitation of file names, and I say, as if it was evident, that for file names in the default case, we have transliteration so we do not have 5 characters per non-ASCII characters but less. My initial recalling was that the transliteration in file name was Karl demand. I was wrong, as it was Sergey idea, but maybe my incorrect recalling was because Karl wanted to make it the default when we switched to Perl. It was the default in texi2html. It is a long time ago, so I can be totally wrong, it could also have been me, or it could be because it was the default of texi2html. As a side note, I do not have a strong opinion about what default for --transliterate-file-names would be best. I think that we should avoid changing too often as the HTML cross manual links will be broken before all the manuals have been rebuilt. I also still think that it would be good to be able to specify in htmlxref.cnf if a manual do not use the default, but before it would be better to be sure about the default. -- Pat
