From: Anders Lindgren <andlind@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 22392@debbugs.gnu.org, Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org>,
emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Emacs OS X GUI doesn't set locale
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 17:58:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABr8ebYNkmtXFqFc0ZhvPn2_eOGR0K2i=-OAhWM3Hrt=oq1jCA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83lh7c1igo.fsf@gnu.org>
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>
> > 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.
>
> Passing our LANG to subprocesses would be a bad idea, I think. Emacs
> is not supposed to change the environment of the child processes just
> because it needs that for itself.
>
My mistake. I though the whole point was to set it for subprocesses (for
example, to make "ls" sort file names in the right order). Reading the post
again, I realise that this is not the case.
-- Anders
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-26 16:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-25 22:18 Emacs OS X GUI doesn't set locale Alan Third
2016-01-26 7:11 ` Anders Lindgren
2016-01-26 14:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-26 15:06 ` Anders Lindgren
2016-01-26 15:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-26 16:58 ` Anders Lindgren [this message]
2016-01-26 23:05 ` Alan Third
2016-01-27 18:06 ` Paul Eggert
2016-01-27 19:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-27 22:27 ` Paul Eggert
2016-01-28 22:53 ` Alan Third
2016-02-01 5:03 ` Anders Lindgren
2016-02-01 17:48 ` bug#22392: " Alan Third
2016-02-01 18:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-26 22:50 ` Alan Third
2016-01-27 6:21 ` Anders Lindgren
2016-01-27 15:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
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