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POSIX defines a concept of “locales” which control which language to use in language-related features. These Emacs variables control how Emacs interacts with these features.
This variable specifies the coding system to use for decoding system error messages, for encoding the format argument to
format-time-string
, and for decoding the return value offormat-time-string
.
This variable specifies the locale to use for generating system error messages. Changing the locale can cause messages to come out in a different language or in a different orthography. If the variable is
nil
, the locale is specified by environment variables in the usual POSIX fashion.
This variable specifies the locale to use for formatting time values. Changing the locale can cause messages to appear according to the conventions of a different language. If the variable is
nil
, the locale is specified by environment variables in the usual POSIX fashion.