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Re: set-locale-environement: strange default detection
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David Kastrup |
Subject: |
Re: set-locale-environement: strange default detection |
Date: |
Wed, 18 Jul 2007 12:50:53 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.51 (gnu/linux) |
Sascha Wilde <address@hidden> writes:
> David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Sascha Wilde <address@hidden> writes:
>
>>> a friend of mine (unfortunately a vim user, but a nice guy otherwise),
>>> tried emacs on Gnu/Linux and was surprised that `C-h t' presented him
>>> the German version of the tutorial.
> [...]
>> The problem is that we don't have finegrained support. For the
>> purpose of talking to the user, LC_MESSAGES is relevant. But Emacs so
>> rarely has the opportunity to talk anything but English to the user
>> that we simply have no reasonable interface into this for now.
>
> So maybe we should check for LANG, LC_ALL and maybe LC_MESSAGES in
> tutorial.el itself.
Possibly. I am not sure whether environment variables tell the whole
story, and in a readable way (there are locale system calls, too), but
they would probably cover 90% of the cases.
--
David Kastrup
- set-locale-environement: strange default detection, Sascha Wilde, 2007/07/18
- Re: set-locale-environement: strange default detection, Reiner Steib, 2007/07/18
- Re: set-locale-environement: strange default detection, David Kastrup, 2007/07/18
- Re: set-locale-environement: strange default detection, Sascha Wilde, 2007/07/19
- Re: set-locale-environement: strange default detection, David Kastrup, 2007/07/19
- Better language detection for tutorial (was: set-locale-environement: strange default detection), Sascha Wilde, 2007/07/22
- Re: Better language detection for tutorial (was: set-locale-environement: strange default detection), Andreas Schwab, 2007/07/22
- Re: Better language detection for tutorial, David Kastrup, 2007/07/22
- Re: Better language detection for tutorial, Andreas Schwab, 2007/07/22