Subject: bug#22392: Emacs OS X GUI doesn't set locale

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 14:27:09 -0800

On 01/27/2016 11:44 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> I think passing that LANG to subprocesses will cause bug reports.
>

Quite possibly, yes. However, my guess is that it will cause fewer bug 
reports than what Emacs is doing now.

Under MS-Windows, w32.c's init_environment sets LANG if not already set, 
so there is some precedent for OS X doing something similar.