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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: cyd@stupidchicken.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc
Subject: Re: [reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc: language environment should not be derived from LC_CTYPE]
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 12:57:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <uodqv6bg2.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <v9ejrr99dy.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> (message from Reiner Steib on Sat, 25 Nov 2006 10:13:29 +0100)

> From: Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>
> Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 10:13:29 +0100
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>
> 
> My understanding is that LC_CTYPE should be irrelevant with regards to
> the "language used in the user interface for message translation",
> because LC_MESSAGES is the relevant locale variable for this.  If
> LC_MESSAGES is undefined, LANG should be used.

The problem is, set-locale-environment is not used to display
``messages'', as in text-mode programs that use gettext facilities.
It is used to guess various locale-specific defaults.  So it is no
surprise that it doesn't follow to the letter the logic of other
programs.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2006-11-25 10:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-23  2:52 [reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc: language environment should not be derived from LC_CTYPE] Richard Stallman
2006-11-23 20:20 ` Chong Yidong
2006-11-25  9:13   ` Reiner Steib
2006-11-25 10:49     ` Jan Djärv
2006-11-25 10:57     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]

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