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Describe new functions and variables for locales.

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Shell script mode (sh-script) can now indent scripts for shells
derived from sh and rc.  The indentation style is customizeable, and
sh-script can attempt to "learn" the current buffer's style.

** New language environments `Latin-8' and `Latin-9'.
These correspond respectively to the ISO character sets 8859-14
(Celtic) and 8859-15 (updated Latin-1, with the Euro sign).  There is
currently no specific input method support for them.

Note that +++ before an item means the Lisp manual has been updated.
--- means that I have decided it does not need to be in the Lisp manual.
When you add a new item, please add it without either +++ or ---
so I will know I still need to look at it -- rms.

** syntax tables now understand nested comments.
To declare a comment syntax as allowing nesting, just add an `n'
modifier to either of the characters of the comment end and the comment
start sequences.

26140:068f7ad41d40

Shell script mode (sh-script) can now indent scripts for shells
derived from sh and rc.  The indentation style is customizeable, and
sh-script can attempt to "learn" the current buffer's style.

** Emacs now attempts to determine the initial language environment
and preferred and locale coding systems systematically from the
LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, and LANG environment variables during startup.

** New language environments `Latin-8' and `Latin-9'.
These correspond respectively to the ISO character sets 8859-14
(Celtic) and 8859-15 (updated Latin-1, with the Euro sign).  There is
currently no specific input method support for them.

Note that +++ before an item means the Lisp manual has been updated.
--- means that I have decided it does not need to be in the Lisp manual.
When you add a new item, please add it without either +++ or ---
so I will know I still need to look at it -- rms.

** New functions and variables for locales.

The new variable `locale-coding-system' specifies how to encode and
decode strings passed to low-level message functions like strerror and
time functions like strftime.  The new variables `messages-locale' and
`time-locale' give the system locales to be used during the next
invocations of these two types of functions; the new variables
`previous-messages-locale' and `previous-time-locale' give the locales
most recently used.

The new function `set-locale-environment' sets the language
environment, preferred coding system, and locale coding system from
the system locale as specified by the LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, and LANG
environment variables.  It is normally invoked during startup.  It
uses the new variables `locale-language-names',
`locale-charset-language-names', and `locale-preferred-coding-systems'
to make its decisions.

** syntax tables now understand nested comments.
To declare a comment syntax as allowing nesting, just add an `n'
modifier to either of the characters of the comment end and the comment
start sequences.