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Sorry for the long delay - the list seems to have forgotten my
subscription.

Arne J=F8rgensen <arne@arnested.dk> wrote:
> If Emacs is started in a non-english laguage environment (ie
> LANG=3Dda_DK) the signaled error in `nnmaildir-request-set-mark' is not
> "no such file or directory" but "ingen s=E5dan 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?

> 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.


paul