From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Better language detection for tutorial (was: set-locale-environement: strange default detection) Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 17:41:31 +0200 Message-ID: References: <85ejj5xv4x.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <86ejj4g3d4.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1185118905 27990 80.91.229.12 (22 Jul 2007 15:41:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 15:41:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Thomas Arendsen Hein , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Sascha Wilde Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 22 17:41:43 2007 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 1ICdYy-0000SC-Tf for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 22 Jul 2007 17:41:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ICdYy-0000tb-FD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 22 Jul 2007 11:41:40 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ICdYw-0000tW-5B for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Jul 2007 11:41:38 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ICdYu-0000tJ-K5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Jul 2007 11:41:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ICdYu-0000tG-FD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Jul 2007 11:41:36 -0400 Original-Received: from ns.suse.de ([195.135.220.2] helo=mx1.suse.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ICdYt-0007pO-2a; Sun, 22 Jul 2007 11:41:35 -0400 Original-Received: from Relay2.suse.de (mail2.suse.de [195.135.221.8]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 453D812533; Sun, 22 Jul 2007 17:41:32 +0200 (CEST) X-Yow: Oh, FISH sticks, CHEEZ WHIZ, GIN fizz, SHOW BIZ!! In-Reply-To: (Sascha Wilde's message of "Sun\, 22 Jul 2007 16\:59\:14 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 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:75300 Archived-At: Sascha Wilde writes: > + (defun tutorial-get-language () > + "Use LC_ALL, LC_MESSAGES, LANG in turn to determine language to use= . > + This is more reliable then current-language-environment, which is not than `...' > + intended to chose the language used for messages and documentation." choose > + (let (locale (vars '("LC_ALL" "LC_MESSAGES" "LANG"))) > + (while (and vars > + (=3D 0 (length locale))) ; nil or empty string zerop or (=3D (length locale) 0) > + (setq locale (getenv (pop vars)))) pop is a macro in cl. > + (if (< 0 (length locale)) (> (length locale) 0) Andreas. --=20 Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstra=DFe 5, 90409 N=FCrnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint =3D 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED= 5 "And now for something completely different."