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Re: how to change language of format-date-string
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Rasmus |
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Re: how to change language of format-date-string |
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Sat, 21 Mar 2015 16:54:17 +0100 |
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us>
>> Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2015 12:37:39 +0100
>
>>
>> Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > If you only want to change the language for format-time-string, use the
>> > system-time-locale variable:
>> >
>> > (setq system-time-locale "da_DK.UTF-8")
>>
>> Thanks that works.
>
> If you set system-time-locale alone, without also setting
> locale-coding-system to the same encoding as specified by
> system-time-locale, you will get garbled strings (unless you _know_
> that the encoding of both locales is the same, which in practice can
> only be true if they use UTF-8).
I conclude this is a nontrivial problem with a pretty local-specific
solution. It's a shame. It would be quite useful when composing
documents in different languages (especially in terms of %B).
Thanks for the tips.
—Rasmus
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Enough with the bla bla!
Re: how to change language of format-date-string, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/03/21
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