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Re: how to change language of format-date-string
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: how to change language of format-date-string |
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Sat, 21 Mar 2015 18:47:30 +0200 |
> From: Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us>
> Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2015 16:54:17 +0100
>
> >> > (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).
I don't see how it is less trivial in Emacs than it is in any other
program. Changing the locale on the fly is not something you are
supposed to do a lot, so it's little wonder it's complicated. And we
didn't even start talking about locale's local to a thread, only about
a global program-wide locale.
Re: how to change language of format-date-string, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/03/21
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