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@@ -599,19 +599,17 @@ modify read-only text. The new variable `locale-coding-system' specifies how to encode and decode strings passed to low-level message functions like strerror and -time functions like strftime. The new variables `messages-locale' and -`time-locale' give the system locales to be used during the next -invocations of these two types of functions; the new variables -`previous-messages-locale' and `previous-time-locale' give the locales -most recently used. +time functions like strftime. The new variables +`system-messages-locale' and `system-time-locale' give the system +locales to be used when invoking these two types of functions. The new function `set-locale-environment' sets the language environment, preferred coding system, and locale coding system from the system locale as specified by the LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, and LANG -environment variables. It is normally invoked during startup. It -uses the new variables `locale-language-names', -`locale-charset-language-names', and `locale-preferred-coding-systems' -to make its decisions. +environment variables. Normally, it is invoked during startup and need +not be invoked thereafter. It uses the new variables +`locale-language-names', `locale-charset-language-names', and +`locale-preferred-coding-systems' to make its decisions. ** syntax tables now understand nested comments. To declare a comment syntax as allowing nesting, just add an `n' |