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Diffstat (limited to 'lisp')
-rw-r--r-- | lisp/startup.el | 8 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/lisp/startup.el b/lisp/startup.el index 660836dd8df..7dba8954df5 100644 --- a/lisp/startup.el +++ b/lisp/startup.el @@ -298,10 +298,12 @@ is less convenient." (defconst iso-8859-n-locale-regexp "8859[-_]?\\([1-49]\\)\\>" "Regexp that specifies when to enable an ISO 8859-N character set. -We do that if this regexp matches the locale name -specified by the LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE and LANG environment variables. +We do that if this regexp matches the locale name specified by +one of the environment variables LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, or LANG. The paren group in the regexp should match the specific character -set number, N. Currently only Latin-[12345] is supported.") +set number, N. Currently only Latin-[12345] are supported. +\(Note that Latin-5 is ISO 8859-9, because 8859-[678] are non-Latin +alphabets.\)") (defcustom mail-host-address nil "*Name of this machine, for purposes of naming users." |