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Describe new functions and variables for locales.
author Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
date Sat, 23 Oct 1999 08:26:16 +0000
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336 A colon-separated list of directories. Used by the @code{complete} package 336 A colon-separated list of directories. Used by the @code{complete} package
337 to search for files. 337 to search for files.
338 @item INFOPATH 338 @item INFOPATH
339 A colon-separated list of directories holding info files. Setting this 339 A colon-separated list of directories holding info files. Setting this
340 variable overrides the setting in @file{paths.el} when Emacs was built. 340 variable overrides the setting in @file{paths.el} when Emacs was built.
341 @item LANG 341 @item LC_ALL
342 @itemx LC_ALL
343 @itemx LC_CTYPE 342 @itemx LC_CTYPE
344 The user's preferred locale. A locale name which contains 343 @itemx LANG
345 @samp{8859-@var{n}}, @samp{8859_@var{n}} or @samp{8859@var{n}}, where 344 @findex set-locale-environment
346 @var{n} is between 1 and 4, automatically specifies the 345 @vindex locale-language-names
347 @samp{Latin-@var{n}} language environment when Emacs starts up. If 346 @vindex locale-charset-language-names
348 @var{n} is 9, that specifies @samp{Latin-5}. 347 @vindex locale-preferred-coding-systems
348 The user's locale, matched by @code{set-locale-environment} against
349 entries in @code{locale-language-names},
350 @code{locale-charset-language-names}, and
351 @code{locale-preferred-coding-systems} to select a default language
352 environment and coding system. The first of these environment variables
353 with a nonempty value specifies the locale.
349 @item LOGNAME 354 @item LOGNAME
350 The user's login name. See also @code{USER}. 355 The user's login name. See also @code{USER}.
351 @item MAIL 356 @item MAIL
352 The name of the user's system mail inbox. 357 The name of the user's system mail inbox.
353 @item MAILRC 358 @item MAILRC