On Oct 17, 2016, at 5:54 PM, Ken Hornstein <kenh(_at_)pobox(_dot_)com> wrote:
I thought Laura's suggestion was to be able to put something like
locale: en_GB.utf8
into ~/.mh_profile, which seems eminently sensible to me.
Sigh. I won't object if someone does this work ... but it's not something
I want to tackle, for the aforementioned reasons. Note that it's not
completely straightforward, since a few programs (like post(8)) don't
read the profile.
What about an $NMH_LANG environment variable that the runtime could look for
*very* early on, and use to seed $LANG. Seems like minimal impact to the rest
of the code that's locale aware. Assuming that is all consolidated in the
library routines. Which I *think* we are ...
--lyndon
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