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

[Thorsten Glaser]

Chuck Houpt dixit:

> However, since LC_MESSAGES is designed to control the
> language used for "informative messages", and web pages are a kind of
> informational message,

They aren't. They are *data*, not part of the programme. Otherwise,
content you write in a word processor would be an informative message
of it? Even GPL'd if the word processor itself is?

> How about I revise the patch to be an off-by-default configuration option? For
> example:
>
> LOCALE_PREFERRED_LANGUAGE:FALSE

Lynx doesn't even LC_CTYPE for the display character set. No, really
not. I'm still against this patch.

//mirabile
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