[bug #59814] [PATCH] improve internationalization at startup

[Dave]

Follow-up Comment #13, bug #59814 (project groff):

Looks good to me, aside from one grammar quibble in the docs.

The attached file contains the changes implementing the .*soquiet requests
(bug #59973) as well as the changes for this bug, although the latter changes
use the bare .mso (with a comment that the commit could wait for .msoquiet's
availability).  I presume this will all get sorted before the actual commits
(especially as comment #7 shows the current bug's changes broken into multiple
logical pieces).

The grammar quibble, in text that appears in doc/groff.texi and
man/groff_diff.7.man, is subtle and actually easiest to see if the sentence is
laid out with programming-style indentation:

If
  the environment variables are
    not set,
    set to "C", or
    a localization file for the locale does not exist,
the English localization file is used.

The "A, B, or C" clause, being a single series, must all grammatically fit
into the same part of the sentence--that is, all be on the same nesting level.
 But here, A and B grammatically follow the second nesting level and C the
first.  I'd probably rework it as

If
  the environment variables are
    not set or
    set to "C",
  or a localization file for the locale does not exist,
the English localization file is used.

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