(locale-translation-file-name): New variable.

(command-line): Use it to decode locale aliases.

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lisp/startup.el b/lisp/startup.el
index 1a85a2aa0be..aa86b0828c0 100644
--- a/lisp/startup.el
+++ b/lisp/startup.el
@@ -329,6 +329,9 @@ from being initialized."
                  string)
   :group 'auto-save)
 
+(defvar locale-translation-file-name "/usr/share/locale/locale.alias"
+  "*File name for the system's file of locale-name aliases.")
+
 (defvar init-file-debug nil)
 
 (defvar init-file-had-error nil)
@@ -482,6 +485,17 @@ and any subdirectory that contains a file named `.nosearch'."
                (and (not (equal string "")) string))
              (let ((string (getenv "LANG")))
                (and (not (equal string "")) string)))))
+    ;; Translate "swedish" into "sv_SE.ISO-8859-1", and so on,
+    ;; using the translation file that GNU/Linux systems have.
+    (and ctype
+         (not (string-match iso-8859-n-locale-regexp ctype))
+         (file-exists-p locale-translation-file-name)
+         (with-temp-buffer
+           (insert-file-contents locale-translation-file-name)
+           (if (re-search-forward (concat "^" ctype "[ \t]*") nil t)
+               (setq ctype (buffer-substring (point)
+                                             (progn (end-of-line) (point)))))))
+    ;; Now see if the locale specifies an ISO 8859 character set.
     (when (and ctype
                (string-match iso-8859-n-locale-regexp ctype))
       (let (charset (which (match-string 1 ctype)))