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LC_CTYPE affects tutorial language

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From: npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net
To: control <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#27505: LC_CTYPE affects tutorial language
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2017 21:39:24 -0400

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Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> 
>> Is this expected behavior or a bug?
>
> It's the intended behavior: LC_CTYPE affects the language environment
> which Emacs sets up by default.  From the Emacs manual:
>
>      Some operating systems let you specify the character-set locale you
>   are using by setting the locale environment variables ‘LC_ALL’,
>   ‘LC_CTYPE’, or ‘LANG’.  (If more than one of these is set, the first one
>   that is nonempty specifies your locale for this purpose.)  During
>   startup, Emacs looks up your character-set locale’s name in the system
>   locale alias table, matches its canonical name against entries in the
>   value of the variables ‘locale-charset-language-names’ and
>   ‘locale-language-names’ (the former overrides the latter), and selects
>   the corresponding language environment if a match is found.  It also
>   adjusts the display table and terminal coding system, the locale coding
>   system, the preferred coding system as needed for the locale, and—last
>   but not least—the way Emacs decodes non-ASCII characters sent by your
>   keyboard.
>
> And the language environment includes a setting for the default
> tutorial.

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