From: Boruch Baum <boruch_baum@gmx.com>
To: Emacs-Devel List <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Cc: Maxim Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: CSV parsing and other issues (Re: LC_NUMERIC)
Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2021 19:36:38 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210606233638.v7b7rwbufay5ltn7@E15-2016.optimum.net> (raw)
I wasn't cc'ed (and I don't subscribe to the list), so I only now saw
the continuation of my post.
1] @Maxim: You seemed to indicate that the default emacs locale is 'C'.
That may be true, and I may be mixing up two separate things, but my
observation is that I get 'nil' when I check for any related
environment variable using function `getenv', and in practice I need
to temporarily manually use function setenv to set LC_COLLATE=C in
order to offer several sorting options in package diredc. Note though
that feature isn't performing the sort within emacs; it's temporarily
setting a shell environment and having the external ls program
perform the sort for emacs-core dired. Thus, my experience has been
that the default has been something other than C, at least for
LC_COLLATE. I suspect that's true for ALL emacs users.
2] @Eli: You wrote
> > The problem with that, of course, is that not every supported
> > platform can dynamically change the locale, let alone do that
> > efficiently.
I have no idea to what actual supported platform you're referring.
3] @ELi: Your wrote
> > Text processing in Emacs is generally separate from the current
> > locale's rules,
> > ...
> > So passing a locale argument to functions that produce output,
> > with the intent to request some behavior to be tailored to that
> > locale, is the only reasonable way to have this kind
Agreed. My input here is that there should be clear documentation of
how to retrieve a value for that argument from a buffer's context,
(maybe the same way that flyspell does?).
I see also that I created room for confusion in asking actually for TWO
features (single-quote and upper-case I) because the two will behave
differently in an expected default condition. The single quote format
(for the thousands separator) can be expected to produce a result always
for all conditions of locale, while I expect most locale cases won't
produce any special output for the upper-case I format option.
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Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-06-06 23:36 Boruch Baum [this message]
2021-06-07 12:28 ` CSV parsing and other issues (Re: LC_NUMERIC) Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-08 0:45 ` Boruch Baum
2021-06-08 2:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-08 15:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-06-08 16:35 ` Maxim Nikulin
2021-06-08 18:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-10 16:28 ` Maxim Nikulin
2021-06-10 16:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-10 18:01 ` Boruch Baum
2021-06-10 18:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-10 19:04 ` Boruch Baum
2021-06-10 19:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-10 20:20 ` Boruch Baum
2021-06-11 6:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-11 8:18 ` Boruch Baum
2021-06-11 16:51 ` Maxim Nikulin
2021-06-11 13:56 ` Filipp Gunbin
2021-06-11 14:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-11 18:52 ` Filipp Gunbin
2021-06-11 19:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-11 16:58 ` Maxim Nikulin
2021-06-11 18:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-14 16:38 ` Maxim Nikulin
2021-06-14 17:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-16 17:27 ` Maxim Nikulin
2021-06-16 17:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-10 21:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-06-12 14:41 ` Maxim Nikulin
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2021-06-02 18:54 LC_NUMERIC formatting [FEATURE REQUEST] Boruch Baum
2021-06-03 14:44 ` CSV parsing and other issues (Re: LC_NUMERIC) Maxim Nikulin
2021-06-03 15:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-04 16:31 ` Maxim Nikulin
2021-06-04 19:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
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