From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ken Brown Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Emacs fails to use default locale Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:08:22 -0500 Message-ID: <4B0D80A6.8010208@cornell.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1259179844 18580 80.91.229.12 (25 Nov 2009 20:10:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:10:44 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 25 21:10:37 2009 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 1NDOCB-0004Ba-3w for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:10:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33368 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NDOCA-0000g0-OW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:10:34 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NDNE4-0004hg-Ec for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:08:28 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NDNDz-0004fE-O0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:08:27 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=51710 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NDNDz-0004f0-Jb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:08:23 -0500 Original-Received: from granite1.mail.cornell.edu ([128.253.83.141]:61991 helo=authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NDNDz-0001va-2C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:08:23 -0500 Original-Received: from [128.84.234.191] (markov.math.cornell.edu [128.84.234.191]) (authenticated bits=0) by authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (8.13.1/8.12.10) with ESMTP id nAPJ8KnI025971 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:08:21 -0500 (EST) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 9 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:117759 Archived-At: According to http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xbd/envvar.html if LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, and LANG are all either unset or empty, then the implementation-dependent default locale is supposed to be used. My understanding is that this should be done by using setlocale(LC_CTYPE, ""). But emacs's locale initialization seems to just use the environment variables, so it doesn't pick up the default locale if the variables are unset. Ken