From: Stefan Nobis <stefan-ml@snobis.de>
To: Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Gnus in Emacs 25 changes language for format-time-string
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2016 09:29:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1intdj16m.fsf@nobis-it.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b4mponmxmrt.fsf@jpl.org> (Katsumi Yamaoka's message of "Fri, 30 Sep 2016 09:19:02 +0900")
Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org> writes:
> I can't think Gnus does do it.
I assume, something inside Gnus (e.g. formatting the summary buffer,
which contains dates) forces some kind of decision of some previously
rather undecided state. :)
> But the value of the variable `system-time-locale' gets changed to
> that of German, doesn't it?
No, `system-time-locale' as well as `system-messages-locale' are both
nil when Emacs starts as well as after having Gnus used for a while.
> (set-locale-environment "C") ;; or "en_US.UTF-8", etc.
But this hint really helped. I now use
(set-locale-environment "en_US.UTF-8")
in my init and this seems to fix my problem. Now I get english day
names everywhere. Thank you very much for your help!
--
Until the next mail...,
Stefan.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-30 7:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-29 11:35 Stefan Nobis
2016-09-30 0:19 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2016-09-30 7:29 ` Stefan Nobis [this message]
2016-09-30 9:17 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
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