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29.0.50; date in modelines

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From: Filipp Gunbin <fgunbin <at> fastmail.fm>
To: Daniel Martín <mardani29 <at> yahoo.es>
Cc: Alan Third <alan <at> idiocy.org>, nisoni <at> algon.dk, stefan <at> marxist.se, 51321 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, larsi <at> gnus.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Subject: bug#51321: 29.0.50; date in modelines
Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2021 19:10:46 +0300

On 01/11/2021 23:17 +0100, Daniel Martín wrote:

> Alan Third <alan <at> idiocy.org> writes:
>
>>
>> I know almost nothing about the locale, but from reading the man pages
>> I can't understand why we need to set LC_ALL when we're already
>> setting LANG. Isn't LANG the fallback if LC_ALL isn't set?
>
> You are right.  Setting LANG should be all that is needed and I think my
> patch should be reverted.
>
> I'm still confused by Niels's issue, though.  Given the screenshot he
> showed, LANG should have been set to da_DK.UTF-8, which should show the
> weekday in Danish:
>
> $ LANG=da_DK.UTF-8 date +%c
> Man  1 Nov 22:41:33 2021
>
> Perhaps the way he launches Emacs inherits a LANG variable already set
> to English.  Or there is a wrapper in some custom Emacs NS distribution
> that sets LANG to English beforehand.  Anyway, I think it's a
> configuration problem somewhere, unrelated to Emacs, that should be
> handled by the user overriding the time locale manually:
>
> (setq system-time-locale "da_DK.UTF-8")
>
> WDYT?  Sorry, in retrospective, I think I didn't do the absolutely
> correct thing here.

I found that coreutils date and macOS date differ in behavior:

coreutils:

LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8 LC_ALL= /opt/local/libexec/gnubin/date +%c
Tue Nov  2 18:55:19 2021

macOS:

LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8 LC_ALL= /bin/date +%c
вторник,  2 ноября 2021 г. 18:54:52

Then, I looked at other LC_ variables, from them only LC_CTYPE=UTF-8 is
set (I don't know by whom, it's certainly not in my shell init files)

And if I invoke coreutils date like this:
LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8 LC_ALL= LC_CTYPE= /opt/local/libexec/gnubin/date +%c
вторник,  2 ноября 2021 г. 19:07:29

The output is localized.

So maybe Daniel also has that LC_CTYPE variable set somewhere in macOS,
and is using coreutils date, and that prevents him from getting
localized date as expected.

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