Re: set-locale-environement: strange default detection

[David Kastrup]

Reiner Steib <address@hidden> writes:

> On Wed, Jul 18 2007, Sascha Wilde wrote:
>
>> LANG=en_US
>> address@hidden
> [...]
>> so it should be clear, that, also he wants to be able to handle German
>> texts properly, he wants his user interfaces in English.
>
> JFTR, I reported the same problem before:
>
> ,----[ http://thread.gmane.org/E1Gn4h0-00057g-Uh%40fencepost.gnu.org ]
> | From: Reiner Steib
> | To: emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org
> | Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 09:36:52 +0100
> | Subject: language environment should not be derived from LC_CTYPE
> `----

That is not the same problem.  "language-environment" entails much
more than "which language should the computer pick for talking to the
human?".  LC_CTYPE should definitely determine the preferred
encodings.

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