On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 3:44 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> * Have you considered populating `process-environment' instead of setting LANG
> in the Emacs process? Would there be any advantages/disadvantages with this
> approach?
process-environment gets passed to child processes, right?
Yes, that is why I asked if he had considered that approach. The reason I asked was if there was any advantage in setting the LANG variable of the Emacs process itself, or if this only was of interest of subprocesses.