Re: `texindex` output depends on locale settings

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: arnold@skeeve.com
> Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2022 06:33:33 -0700
> Cc: arnold@skeeve.com
> 
> Hi.
> 
> Thanks for the report. As written, texindex is indeed suitable only
> for English; when I wrote it ~ 9 years ago, nobody said anything about
> support for other languages.
> 
> I think this can be remedied, although there may be issues with
> awk versions besides gawk as most don't support Unicode or other
> multibyte character sets.

Are you sure this Werner's request can be fulfilled:

> >   I consider it very bad that `texindex` is locale-dependent.  IMHO
> >   the proper solution is to make `texinfo.tex` emit a document
> >   encoding statement to the (unsorted) index file that in turn gets
> >   acknowledged by `texindex`.

FWIW, I don't even understand how can this be accomplished, unless the
program reinvents all the library functions that deal with characters
from scratch, instead of using libc functions (which are
locale-dependent).  And Gawk does use libc functions for that.