Re: set-locale-environement: strange default detection

[David Kastrup]

Sascha Wilde <address@hidden> writes:

> David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Sascha Wilde <address@hidden> writes:
>
>>> a friend of mine (unfortunately a vim user, but a nice guy otherwise),
>>> tried emacs on Gnu/Linux and was surprised that `C-h t' presented him
>>> the German version of the tutorial.
> [...]
>> The problem is that we don't have finegrained support.  For the
>> purpose of talking to the user, LC_MESSAGES is relevant.  But Emacs so
>> rarely has the opportunity to talk anything but English to the user
>> that we simply have no reasonable interface into this for now.
>
> So maybe we should check for LANG, LC_ALL and maybe LC_MESSAGES in
> tutorial.el itself.

Possibly.  I am not sure whether environment variables tell the whole
story, and in a readable way (there are locale system calls, too), but
they would probably cover 90% of the cases.

-- 
David Kastrup