Subject: Re: Emacs OS X GUI doesn't set locale

From: Anders Lindgren <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2016 06:03:30 +0100

Hi!

Today, I tested this patch on OS X and GNUstep. From what I can see, it
applies cleanly and work as intended.

As the LANG variable is set early in the initialisation process, it will be
propagated to `process-environment' and thus set for all processes started
by Emacs.

I suggest that we apply this patch, so that it will be included in the next
Emacs 25 pretest.

    -- Anders Lindgren

On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 11:53 PM, Alan Third <[email-masked]> wrote:

> Paul Eggert <[email-masked]> writes:
>
> > On 01/26/2016 03:05 PM, Alan Third wrote:
> >
> > I looked around, and it appears the GnuCash ran into a similar
> > problem. You might want to look at its solution, in:
> >
> > https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/blob/master/src/bin/gnucash-bin.c
>
>
> I've had a look at that code and was initially worried at how much more
> they have than I'd written, but I'm pretty sure that most of their code
> is doing things that are done by mule in emacs.
>
> One thing I don't understand is that they're building up the locale
> value from the two parts (language and country code) when NSLocale
> provides a function that does that for you. Makes me wonder if they know
> something I don't.
>
> They've also wrapped that bit of code in a try/catch as someone was
> apparently getting a crash due to not having the country code set. I
> can't replicate this, the only way I've found through Google is by using
> XCode to unset the user's locale, and we don't use XCode.
>
> I've put in a try/catch anyway, just in case.
>
>
> From b96c97cb16a980243389c01c10c5ab232fe6827e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Alan Third <[email-masked]>
> Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2016 21:42:04 +0000
> Subject: [PATCH] Set locale when run from OS X GUI
>
> * src/emacs.c (main): Call ns_init_locale.
> * src/nsterm.m (ns_init_locale): Get locale from OS and set LANG.
> * src/nsterm.h: Include ns_init_locale.
> ---
>  src/emacs.c  |  5 +++++
>  src/nsterm.h |  2 ++
>  src/nsterm.m | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
>  3 files changed, 28 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/src/emacs.c b/src/emacs.c
> index aaf058e..10e81d5 100644
> --- a/src/emacs.c
> +++ b/src/emacs.c
> @@ -1378,6 +1378,11 @@ Using an Emacs configured with
> --with-x-toolkit=lucid does not have this problem
>    init_ntproc (dumping); /* must precede init_editfns.  */
>  #endif
>
> +#ifdef HAVE_NS
> +  /* Initialise the locale from user defaults. */
> +  ns_init_locale();
> +#endif
> +
>    /* Initialize and GC-protect Vinitial_environment and
>       Vprocess_environment before set_initial_environment fills them
>       in.  */
> diff --git a/src/nsterm.h b/src/nsterm.h
> index 6ca584e..fa5399c 100644
> --- a/src/nsterm.h
> +++ b/src/nsterm.h
> @@ -1141,6 +1141,8 @@ extern void  ns_retain_object (void *obj);
>  extern void *ns_alloc_autorelease_pool (void);
>  extern void ns_release_autorelease_pool (void *);
>  extern const char *ns_get_defaults_value (const char *key);
> +extern void ns_init_locale (void);
> +
>
>  /* in nsmenu */
>  extern void update_frame_tool_bar (struct frame *f);
> diff --git a/src/nsterm.m b/src/nsterm.m
> index b270e0e..4b04fd5 100644
> --- a/src/nsterm.m
> +++ b/src/nsterm.m
> @@ -586,6 +586,27 @@ ns_load_path (void)
>
>
>  void
> +ns_init_locale (void)
> +/* OS X doesn't set any environment variables for the locale when run
> +   from the GUI. Get the locale from the OS and set LANG. */
> +{
> +  NSLocale *locale = [NSLocale currentLocale];
> +
> +  NSTRACE ("ns_init_locale");
> +
> +  @try
> +    {
> +      /* Set LANG to locale, but not if LANG is already set. */
> +      setenv("LANG", [[locale localeIdentifier] UTF8String], 0);
> +    }
> +  @catch (NSException *e)
> +    {
> +      NSLog (@"Locale detection failed: %@: %@", [e name], [e reason]);
> +    }
> +}
> +
> +
> +void
>  ns_release_object (void *obj)
>  /*
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>      Release an object (callable from C)
> --
> 2.5.4 (Apple Git-61)
>
>
>
> --
> Alan Third
>
>