From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: "Frédéric Perrin" <frederic.perrin@resel.fr>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org, "Andreas Schwab" <schwab@suse.de>
Subject: Re: Woman path : adding l10n man pages
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 02:41:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lk5jayf3.fsf@jurta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bbwsp3m8rx.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (Glenn Morris's message of "Sun, 17 Feb 2008 19:02:26 -0500")
>> 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.
>
> OK, agreed. The usual stupid problem - what should it be called? There
> is already system-messages-locale, which is set and used in ways I
> don't understand, eg:
>
> LC_MESSAGES=en_US.iso88591 emacs -Q
> -> system-messages-locale = nil
As I see the current locale system in Emacs is quite a mess. I think we
should carefully redesign it and also get rid of language environments
that are in fact a redundant duplicate of the locale system.
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-18 0:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-31 13:47 Woman path : adding l10n man pages Frédéric Perrin
2008-01-08 14:14 ` Frédéric Perrin
2008-01-08 15:38 ` Andreas Schwab
2008-01-09 15:35 ` Frédéric Perrin
2008-01-12 18:01 ` Frédéric Perrin
2008-02-04 19:58 ` Glenn Morris
2008-02-16 20:01 ` Frédéric Perrin
2008-02-16 22:13 ` Glenn Morris
2008-02-16 23:32 ` Juri Linkov
2008-02-17 0:18 ` Glenn Morris
2008-02-17 0:43 ` Juri Linkov
2008-02-17 23:15 ` Glenn Morris
2008-02-17 23:35 ` Juri Linkov
2008-02-18 0:02 ` Glenn Morris
2008-02-18 0:41 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2008-02-18 1:14 ` Miles Bader
2008-02-18 23:35 ` Juri Linkov
2008-02-19 0:18 ` Miles Bader
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