Re: [Lynx-dev] Proposed patch to init preferred-doc-lang from LANG/LANGUAGE

[Chuck Houpt]

At 9:26 PM +0000 4/22/07, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> Chuck Houpt dixit:
>
> >  I'd like to propose/submit the attached patch, which makes Lynx use the
> >  LANG/LANGUAGE environment variables to generate the preferred 
> > document language
> >  setting (PREFERRED_LANGUAGE).
>
> Vote against.
>
> //mirabile
> --

Could you explain a little? Is there a problem with the general idea 
(run-time setting of PREFERRED_LANGUAGE) or the specific 
implementation (using LANG/LANGUAGE)?

I can see there might be issues with the implementation - overloading 
the meaning of LANG/LANGUAGE might cause existing scripts to break, 
etc.

A less entangled implementation might be to define a new environment 
variable (ex: LYNX_PREFERRED_LANGUAGE) to override the default. Or 
maybe a command-line option.

I'm happy to adjust the implementation.

- Chuck