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25.0.50; NS Emacs run from OS X GUI doesn't set locale

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Message #59 received at 22392 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 22392 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, alan <at> idiocy.org, andlind <at> gmail.com,
 emacs-devel <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs OS X GUI doesn't set locale
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.

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