Hi Tassilo,
Tassilo Horn wrote:
> "Sebastien Vauban" <[email protected]> writes:
>
>>> What's going on? I even have no glue how org/emacs (correctly)
>>> guesses that I'm German. My locale is en_US.UTF-8...
>>
>> Found in my .emacs:
>>
>> #+begin_src emacs-lisp
>> ;; system locale to use for formatting time values (e.g., timestamps in
>> ;; Org mode files)
>> (setq system-time-locale "C")
>> ;; "en_US.utf8" did not work for the weekday in the agenda!
>> #+end_src
>
> Ok, that does the trick. It was nil before.
Good to know!
> And
>
> (setq system-time-locale (getenv "LANG"))
>
> resulting in "en_US.utf8" seems to work as well. What did not work for
> you in the agenda?
When I wrote (months ago) "did not work", I meant: I got French weekdays in my
agenda ("Lun." for Monday, "Mar.", "Mer.", etc. -- even on 4 characters).
I could retry... but I don't have UTF8 specified in my LANG var. I should do
add it, I guess.
Best regards,
Seb
PS- I'm on Windows XP, with a win32 binary from FSF.
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Sebastien Vauban