From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Woman path : adding l10n man pages Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 01:35:55 +0200 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <877ih3gnqc.fsf@jurta.org> References: <20071231144731.6993df8e@girafe.maisel.enst-bretagne.fr> <20080108151446.7bcd3769@girafe.maisel.enst-bretagne.fr> <20080216210150.6d8429c3@girafe.maisel.enst-bretagne.fr> <87bq6gscis.fsf@jurta.org> <1i63woh1u9.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87k5l4pg9j.fsf@jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1203291781 29231 80.91.229.12 (17 Feb 2008 23:43:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 23:43:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: =?gb2312?B?RnKopmSopnJpYw==?= Perrin , emacs-devel@gnu.org, Andreas Schwab To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 18 00:43:24 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JQtAH-0002Of-Ia for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Feb 2008 00:43:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JQt9n-0004Wz-5i for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 17 Feb 2008 18:42:51 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JQt9g-0004TQ-Td for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Feb 2008 18:42:45 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JQt9b-0004P2-L9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Feb 2008 18:42:43 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JQt9b-0004Op-9L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Feb 2008 18:42:39 -0500 Original-Received: from relay02.kiev.sovam.com ([62.64.120.197]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JQt9W-0000zc-Ta; Sun, 17 Feb 2008 18:42:35 -0500 Original-Received: from [83.170.232.243] (helo=smtp.svitonline.com) by relay02.kiev.sovam.com with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JQt9N-0006yW-7M; Mon, 18 Feb 2008 01:42:29 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Glenn Morris's message of "Sun, 17 Feb 2008 18:15:42 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-Scanner-Signature: c2436a487120708c9e0f2b31fdd4cc45 X-DrWeb-checked: yes X-SpamTest-Envelope-From: juri@jurta.org X-SpamTest-Group-ID: 00000000 X-SpamTest-Header: Not Detected X-SpamTest-Info: Profiles 2248 [Feb 17 2008] X-SpamTest-Info: helo_type=3 X-SpamTest-Info: {HEADERS: header Content-Type found without required header Content-Transfer-Encoding} X-SpamTest-Method: none X-SpamTest-Rate: 11 X-SpamTest-Status: Not detected X-SpamTest-Status-Extended: not_detected X-SpamTest-Version: SMTP-Filter Version 3.0.0 [0255], KAS30/Release X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: FreeBSD 4.8-5.1 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:89417 Archived-At: >> Perhaps the code that uses the locale in woman.el should prefer the >> customized value if woman-locale is non-nil? > > I see what you're saying and perhaps you're right. There could be a > general locale variable which woman should use, unless woman-locale is > non-nil, in which case it should be preferred. > > But AFAICS there is no such general locale variable at present (no > Lisp variable, including system-messages-locale, seems to be set based > on LC_MESSAGES), so I'd have to add one, which would only be used > by... woman. I think the best course of action in the long term is to add such a general locale variable that could be later used by other packages besides woman. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/