Re: master e4e1e268c8e 2/2: Set a default locale on Android

[Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> Is this the best we can do on Android?  AFAIU, the issue here is that
> the locales available on Android are different from those recognized
> by the C library.  But cannot we solve this by implementing a mapping
> from Android locales to libc locales?  If not, why not?
>
> I think arbitrarily using en_US.utf8 could surprise users and worse,
> could produce effects that break UX.  For example, LANG defines the
> default spell-checking dictionary, so the above basically forces users
> of non-English locales to manually change the dictionary each time,
> or customize their Emacs to do that, something they don't have to do
> on other platforms.
>
> We solved a similar problem on MS-Windows, so why cannot we solve it
> on Android?

This is the behavior of other Android programs placed in similar
situations, and is only designed to enable programs to output UTF-8
error messages and the like, not for these programs to print messages in
the language the user has configured, most of which the Android C
library doesn't support anyway.