From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: master e4e1e268c8e 2/2: Set a default locale on Android
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2023 20:11:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83sf4d2894.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
> branch: master
> commit e4e1e268c8e9f7de6fe5d4b05beb595a1781c02c
> Author: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
> Commit: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
>
> Set a default locale on Android
>
> * doc/emacs/android.texi (Android Environment): Revise for
> change.
>
> * src/android.c (initEmacs): Set LANG to either en_US.utf8 or C,
> subject to whether the system is newer than Android
> 5.0 (inclusive).
Is this the best we can do on Android? AFAIU, the issue here is that
the locales available on Android are different from those recognized
by the C library. But cannot we solve this by implementing a mapping
from Android locales to libc locales? If not, why not?
I think arbitrarily using en_US.utf8 could surprise users and worse,
could produce effects that break UX. For example, LANG defines the
default spell-checking dictionary, so the above basically forces users
of non-English locales to manually change the dictionary each time,
or customize their Emacs to do that, something they don't have to do
on other platforms.
We solved a similar problem on MS-Windows, so why cannot we solve it
on Android?
next reply other threads:[~2023-12-07 18:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-12-07 18:11 Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2023-12-08 0:11 ` master e4e1e268c8e 2/2: Set a default locale on Android Po Lu
2023-12-08 6:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-12-08 6:49 ` Po Lu
2023-12-08 7:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-12-08 7:24 ` Po Lu
2023-12-08 7:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-12-08 10:30 ` Po Lu
2023-12-08 12:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-12-08 13:40 ` Po Lu
2023-12-08 14:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
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