Re: [O] executing org-table TBLFM form changes (resets) language settings

[Rainer Stengele]

Am 25.01.2018 um 20:27 schrieb Nick Dokos:

Rainer Stengele <rainer.steng...@online.de> writes:

All,

My current-language-environment is "German".
Having an Org table with a TBLFM attached:

| IM Startzeit          | IM Endezeit           | Stunden | delta(x,16) | Anm. |
|-----------------------+-----------------------+---------+-------------+------|
| [2018-01-22 Mo 19:30] | [2018-01-23 Di 14:30] |   19.00 |        3.00 |      |
|                       |                       |         |             |      |

#+TBLFM: $3=24*(date(<$2>)-date(<$1>)); %.2f::$4=$3-16.0; %.2f

entering a new timestamp correctly inserts German dayname abbrevs: ("Do", German for 
"Thu", English):

| IM Startzeit          | IM Endezeit           | Stunden | delta(x,16) | Anm. |
|-----------------------+-----------------------+---------+-------------+------|
| [2018-01-22 Mo 19:30] | [2018-01-23 Di 14:30] |   19.00 |        3.00 |      |
| [2018-01-25 Do 14:19] |                       |         |             |      |

#+TBLFM: $3=24*(date(<$2>)-date(<$1>)); %.2f::$4=$3-16.0; %.2f

Executing the TBLFM line with C-c C-c changes (resets) the language environment 
to English.

Now inserting a timestamp inserts "Thu" instead of "Do", that is it uses the 
English day name abbrevs:

| IM Startzeit          | IM Endezeit           |      Stunden |  delta(x,16) | 
Anm. |
|-----------------------+-----------------------+--------------+--------------+------|
| [2018-01-22 Mo 19:30] | [2018-01-23 Di 14:30] |        19.00 |         3.00 | 
     |
| [2018-01-25 Thu 14:21]|                       |              |              | 
     |

#+TBLFM: $3=24*(date(<$2>)-date(<$1>)); %.2f::$4=$3-16.0; %.2f

Believe me it took me some time to find out what action in Emacs changes the 
whole lang environment.

Is that a bug or is there a language setting in the TBLFM form?

Thanks for any hint.

Regards,
Rainer

I can reproduce this if I start emacs like this:

    emacs -q -l ~/src/minimal/min.org.el /tmp/dates.org &

set the language environment inside emacs and then do C-c C-c on the TBLFM line
and try to add another date.

I cannot reproduce it when invoking emacs like this:

    LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 emacs -q -l ~/src/minimal/min.org.el /tmp/dates.org

so it seems you are right that in the first case, something changes the language
environment.

Hi Nick,

thanks for confirming.
I am running under Windows and cannot apply your environment setting like this.

Does anyboday have a chance to correct the misbehaviour in the TBLFM table code 
that changes the language settings?
I will not be able to do it on my own.

Thank you.
Regards, Rainer