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| author | Eli Zaretskii | 2001-03-30 10:49:02 +0000 |
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| committer | Eli Zaretskii | 2001-03-30 10:49:02 +0000 |
| commit | 80f0ce09db36a975d1a226ae0ca621ed9ed199e3 (patch) | |
| tree | 9186bed4521741813da3a6bc8b315ed698c951ad | |
| parent | 9c6251b6796e81aeaab4059004990dee347327c6 (diff) | |
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(Language Environments): Fix the description of locale settings during
startup. From Paul Eggert.
| -rw-r--r-- | man/mule.texi | 23 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/man/mule.texi b/man/mule.texi index a175454b95f..a80c0af7a81 100644 --- a/man/mule.texi +++ b/man/mule.texi | |||
| @@ -239,17 +239,18 @@ of the newly installed fonts with the following commands: | |||
| 239 | @vindex locale-language-names | 239 | @vindex locale-language-names |
| 240 | @vindex locale-charset-language-names | 240 | @vindex locale-charset-language-names |
| 241 | @cindex locales | 241 | @cindex locales |
| 242 | Some operating systems let you specify the language you are using by | 242 | Some operating systems let you specify the character-set locale you |
| 243 | setting the locale environment variables @env{LC_ALL}, @env{LC_CTYPE}, | 243 | are using by setting the locale environment variables @env{LC_ALL}, |
| 244 | or @env{LANG}.@footnote{If more than one of these is set, the first | 244 | @env{LC_CTYPE}, or @env{LANG}.@footnote{If more than one of these is |
| 245 | one that is nonempty specifies your locale for this purpose.} Emacs | 245 | set, the first one that is nonempty specifies your locale for this |
| 246 | handles this during startup by matching your locale against entries in | 246 | purpose.} During startup, Emacs looks up your character-set locale's |
| 247 | the value of the variables @code{locale-charset-language-names} and | 247 | name in the system locale alias table, matches its canonical name |
| 248 | @code{locale-language-names} and selects the corresponding language | 248 | against entries in the value of the variables |
| 249 | environment if a match is found. (The former variable overrides the | 249 | @code{locale-charset-language-names} and @code{locale-language-names}, |
| 250 | latter.) It also adjusts the display table and terminal coding | 250 | and selects the corresponding language environment if a match is found. |
| 251 | system, the locale coding system, and the preferred coding system as | 251 | (The former variable overrides the latter.) It also adjusts the display |
| 252 | needed for the locale. | 252 | table and terminal coding system, the locale coding system, and the |
| 253 | preferred coding system as needed for the locale. | ||
| 253 | 254 | ||
| 254 | If you modify the @env{LC_ALL}, @env{LC_CTYPE}, or @env{LANG} | 255 | If you modify the @env{LC_ALL}, @env{LC_CTYPE}, or @env{LANG} |
| 255 | environment variables while running Emacs, you may want to invoke the | 256 | environment variables while running Emacs, you may want to invoke the |