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29.0.50; Screen flickers on with-locale-environment

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From: Pedro Andres Aranda Gutierrez <paaguti <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: larsi <at> gnus.org, 58193 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#58193: 29.0.50; Screen flickers on with-locale-environment
Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2022 10:19:19 +0200

Eli
This is just an example. But there are other… currency being one of them.
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> El 1 oct 2022, a las 9:33, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> escribió:
> 
> 
>> 
>> From: Pedro Andres Aranda Gutierrez <paaguti <at> gmail.com>
>> Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2022 09:23:12 +0200
>> Cc: larsi <at> gnus.org, 58193 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>> 
>>> Maybe we should leave this macro as-is because of the legacy and work towards something in the
>> line of the
>>> cl-setlocale function in Common LISP.
>> 
>> Common Lisp is just a programming language, it is not a display
>> editor.  In Emacs, certain operations that affect the display should
>> be immediately reflected on display.
>> 
>> So, one implication of my question is whether all operations that need a specific locale to be set need the
>> display redrawn... 
> 
> If all you want is to have time displayed per a certain locale's
> conventions, maybe it's enough to set system-time-locale?  Did you try
> that?  set-locale-environment (which is what with-locale-environment
> uses) does much more than just adjusts the locale's time format.

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