Re: Bug in nnmaildir?

["Arne Jørgensen" <arne@arnested.dk>]

prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes:

> Sorry for the long delay - the list seems to have forgotten my
> subscription.
>
> Arne Jørgensen <arne@arnested.dk> wrote:
>> If Emacs is started in a non-english laguage environment (ie
>> LANG=da_DK) the signaled error in `nnmaildir-request-set-mark' is not
>> "no such file or directory" but "ingen sådan fil eller filkatalog".
>
> Ouch.  Does anyone know if there's a way to get at the localization
> bits from Elisp?  So I could look for
> (locale-translation "no such file or directory") or some such?

Isn't the text coming from some library and not from emacs code?

>> but I don't think the function should depend on the error message.
>
> I agree, but unfortunately the errno information isn't represented any
> other way.  This is a weak spot in Emacs's design.

How about checking the existence of the file or directory before
accessing it instead of the depending on the error message afterwards?
(I have no idea what the code is all about in the first place)

Kind regards,
-- 
Arne Jørgensen
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