GNU bug report logs - #27505
LC_CTYPE affects tutorial language

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Leonard Lausen <leonard <at> lausen.nl>

Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2017 14:50:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #55 received at 27505 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
To: Leonard Lausen <leonard <at> lausen.nl>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 27505 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#27505: acknowledged by developer (Re: bug#27505: LC_CTYPE
 affects tutorial language)
Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2017 13:09:20 +0200

On Aug 05 2017, Leonard Lausen <leonard <at> lausen.nl> wrote:

> So I agree with the previous comment that LANG should take precedence
> over LC_CTYPE with regards to the interface language. Not sure if the
> current emacs implementation allows that change without affecting the
> settings where LC_CTYPE does change precedence over LANG.

LANG never takes precedence over other LC_* values, it only serves as
the default for them.  An interface that uses LC_CTYPE must ignore LANG
when LC_CTYPE is set.

Andreas.

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