[bug #66387] [troff] the hyphenation language is global; should be a property of the environment

[G. Branden Robinson]

URL:
  <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?66387>

                 Summary: [troff] the hyphenation language is global; should
be a property of the environment
                   Group: GNU roff
               Submitter: gbranden
               Submitted: Wed 30 Oct 2024 02:36:41 AM UTC
                Category: Core
                Severity: 4 - Important
              Item Group: Feature change
                  Status: In Progress
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: gbranden
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
         Planned Release: None


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Follow-up Comments:


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Date: Wed 30 Oct 2024 02:36:41 AM UTC By: G. Branden Robinson <gbranden>
This is intolerable, and an annoying barrier to multilingual documents.


$ cat EXPERIMENTS/global-hla.groff
.tm \n[.hla]
.ev french
.hla fr
.tm \n[.hla]
.ev
.tm \n[.hla]


Expected:


en
fr
en


Actual:


$ nroff EXPERIMENTS/global-hla.groff
en
fr
fr









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