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author | Paul Eggert <[email protected]> | 1999-11-20 06:51:09 +0000 |
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committer | Paul Eggert <[email protected]> | 1999-11-20 06:51:09 +0000 |
commit | fa71a53211e7f46316a5c7526a2e5e308368f66f (patch) | |
tree | 13948bf05f52eb014e367a71615310760bc07307 /man | |
parent | 2dedd03c496a244e5f0732a96a550f5bb3bdd4d6 (diff) |
Describe the relationship between set-locale-environment and
set-language-environment, and why one might want to invoke
set-locale-environment.
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-rw-r--r-- | man/mule.texi | 11 |
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diff --git a/man/ChangeLog b/man/ChangeLog index 0d0f438d49..16316c879f 100644 --- a/man/ChangeLog +++ b/man/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +1999-11-20 Paul Eggert <[email protected]> + + * mule.texi: Describe the relationship between + set-locale-environment and set-language-environment, and why + one might want to invoke set-locale-environment. + 1999-11-01 Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> * cc-mode.texi: Fix complaints from makeinfo 4.0. diff --git a/man/mule.texi b/man/mule.texi index 09962e3d11..72d1b5be71 100644 --- a/man/mule.texi +++ b/man/mule.texi @@ -181,6 +181,17 @@ locale @samp{en_GB.ISO8859-15} matches @code{"Latin-1"} in @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 |