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[PATCH] doc: Rename translated manuals to drop the dot.

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From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Julien Lepiller <julien <at> lepiller.eu>
Cc: 37285 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#37285] [PATCH] doc: Rename translated manuals to drop the dot.
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2019 23:11:53 +0200

Ping! :-)  Should we drop this issue?

Thanks,
Ludo'.

Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> skribis:

> Hello,
>
> Julien Lepiller <julien <at> lepiller.eu> skribis:
>
>> Hi, the attached patch changes the translated manual name, from e.g.
>> guix.fr to guix-fr. The reason is that some info readers and generators
>> drop everything after the first dot to get the name of the manual. This
>> leads some readers to thing that "info guix" should open "guix.es.info"
>> instead of "guix.info", and the inter-lingua links on the website
>> version of the manual to be wrong.
>>
>> I think I replaced every instance of the filename in this patch, but I
>> might have forgotten some, so if you see anything I missed, please tell
>> me :)
>
> This is a followup to <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/36782>, right?
> WDYT of my reply there?
>
> Neither the standalone Info reader (which comes with Texinfo) nor Emacs
> have problems with the dot.  Are you aware of another reader that has
> troubles with that?  ‘pinfo’ maybe?
>
> Links in HTML files are broken, but there’s a fix proposed upstream.
>
> Thanks,
> Ludo’.

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