> On Oct 17, 2016, at 5:54 PM, Ken Hornstein <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I thought Laura's suggestion was to be able to put something like >> >> locale: en_GB.utf8 >> >> into ~/.mh_profile, which seems eminently sensible to me. > > Sigh. I won't object if someone does this work ... but it's not something > I want to tackle, for the aforementioned reasons. Note that it's not > completely straightforward, since a few programs (like post(8)) don't > read the profile.
What about an $NMH_LANG environment variable that the runtime could look for *very* early on, and use to seed $LANG. Seems like minimal impact to the rest of the code that's locale aware. Assuming that is all consolidated in the library routines. Which I *think* we are ... --lyndon _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
