Re: pgnus and message-make-date

[Robert Bihlmeyer <e9426626@stud2.tuwien.ac.at>]

>>>>> On 17 Oct 1998 21:39:19 +0200
>>>>> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> said:

 Lars> Robert Bihlmeyer <e9426626@stud2.tuwien.ac.at> writes: Or do
 Lars> things respond to the LC_LANG (etc.) environment variables?
 >>
 >> The LC_* environment variables are used when calling setlocal().
 >> This is normally only done at the start of a program.

 Lars> Surely I can't be the only one who needs to dislocalize the
 Lars> environment momentarily to do something, like, standardized.

This is code from the GNU libc manual, that temporarily changes the locale:

     #include <stddef.h>
     #include <locale.h>
     #include <stdlib.h>
     #include <string.h>
     
     void
     with_other_locale (char *new_locale,
                        void (*subroutine) (int),
                        int argument)
     {
       char *old_locale, *saved_locale;
     
       /* Get the name of the current locale.  */
       old_locale = setlocale (LC_ALL, NULL);
     
       /* Copy the name so it won't be clobbered by `setlocale'. */
       saved_locale = strdup (old_locale);
       if (old_locale == NULL)
         fatal ("Out of memory");
     
       /* Now change the locale and do some stuff with it. */
       setlocale (LC_ALL, new_locale);
       (*subroutine) (argument);
     
       /* Restore the original locale. */
       setlocale (LC_ALL, saved_locale);
       free (saved_locale);
     }

If someone would translate this into a proper emacs primitive, you
could do:

(with-locale "C"
  ; do date formatting
  )

Someone with his hands deep in emacs guts wants to do this? Hrvoje?
Steve?

	Robbe

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