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changeset 26513:949ca235ee9e
Describe the relationship between set-locale-environment and
set-language-environment, and why one might want to invoke
set-locale-environment.
| author | Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> |
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| date | Sat, 20 Nov 1999 06:48:39 +0000 |
| parents | a6cf126fdf97 |
| children | 3e1c04e6791b |
| files | man/mule.texi |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/man/mule.texi Sat Nov 20 00:17:14 1999 +0000 +++ b/man/mule.texi Sat Nov 20 06:48:39 1999 +0000 @@ -181,6 +181,17 @@ @code{locale-charset-language-names}; since these two language environments' character sets disagree, Emacs uses @code{"Latin-9"}. + If all goes well, the @code{set-locale-environment} function selects +the language environment, since language is part of locale. It also +adjusts the display table and terminal coding system, the locale coding +system, and the preferred coding system as needed for the locale. + + Since the @code{set-locale-environment} function is automatically +invoked during startup, you normally do not need to invoke it yourself. +However, if you modify the @env{LC_ALL}, @env{LC_CTYPE}, or @env{LANG} +environment variables, you may want to invoke the +@code{set-locale-environment} function afterwards. + @findex set-locale-environment @vindex locale-preferred-coding-systems The @code{set-locale-environment} function normally uses the preferred