Re: set-locale-environement: strange default detection

[Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>]

On Wed, Jul 18 2007, David Kastrup wrote:

> Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:
>> On Wed, Jul 18 2007, Sascha Wilde wrote:
>>> LANG=en_US
>>> LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro
>> [...]
>>> so it should be clear, that, also he wants to be able to handle German
>>> texts properly, he wants his user interfaces in English.
>>
>> JFTR, I reported the same problem before:
>>
>> ,----[ http://thread.gmane.org/E1Gn4h0-00057g-Uh%40fencepost.gnu.org ]
>> | From: Reiner Steib
>> | To: emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org
>> | Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 09:36:52 +0100
>> | Subject: language environment should not be derived from LC_CTYPE
>> `----
>
> That is not the same problem.  "language-environment" entails much
> more than "which language should the computer pick for talking to the
> human?".  LC_CTYPE should definitely determine the preferred encodings.

Maybe the choice of the subject was not the best one, but the problem
described there primarily is about the language of the tutorial.

Bye, Reiner.
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