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

> Arne Jørgensen <arne@arnested.dk> wrote:
>> How about setting the locale to en_US with the system-messages-locale
>> variable when running the function?
>
> Ok, see if this works for you:
>
> diff -u -r7.4 nnmaildir.el
> --- lisp/nnmaildir.el   20 May 2004 08:02:40 -0000      7.4
> +++ lisp/nnmaildir.el   29 Jun 2004 21:15:22 -0000
> @@ -1541,7 +1541,8 @@
>                      permarkfile (concat mdir ":")
>                      mfile (concat mdir (nnmaildir--art-prefix article)))
>                (condition-case err
> -                  (add-name-to-file permarkfile mfile)
> +                  (let ((system-messages-locale "en_US"))
> +                    (add-name-to-file permarkfile mfile))
>                  (error
>                   (cond
>                    ((nnmaildir--eexist-p err))

If the locale is "C" it works.