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bug#9655: 24.0.50; `set-locale-environment' should use completion
From: |
Drew Adams |
Subject: |
bug#9655: 24.0.50; `set-locale-environment' should use completion |
Date: |
Sun, 2 Oct 2011 12:45:03 -0700 |
The doc string says "LOCALE-NAME should be a string which is the name of
a locale supported by the system." Isn't the set of locales supported
by the system something that Emacs can determine, and then make these
available as completion candidates? Why should a user have to
investigate or guess which locales are choosable?
It also says: "The locale names supported by your system can typically
be found in a directory named `/usr/share/locale' or `/usr/lib/locale'."
This does not help users who are not on a UNIX/Gnu/Linux platform.
Where can they be found on Windows, for instance?
Some of the code looks as if it is specific to UNIX/Gnu/Linux/X-Window.
Should the setting of `locale-translation-file-name' be specific to such
systems, for instance?
It also looks like the code for this command should be split
up/factored. Much of the command body is apparently about
non-interactive use (e.g. nil LOCALE-NAME) - factor that out, for
instance.
In GNU Emacs 24.0.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
of 2011-09-19 on 3249CTO
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
configured using `configure --with-gcc (4.5) --no-opt'
Important settings:
value of $LC_ALL: nil
value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
value of $LC_TIME: nil
value of $LANG: ENU
value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
locale-coding-system: cp1252
default enable-multibyte-characters: t
- bug#9655: 24.0.50; `set-locale-environment' should use completion,
Drew Adams <=