RE: forwarded message from Lionel Fourquaux

-----Message d'origine----- De : Stephen J. Turnbull [mailto:turnbull＠sk.tsukuba.ac.jp] Envoye : vendredi 22 juin 2001 01:49 A : Lionel Fourquaux Cc : xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org; mike(a)xemacs.org Objet : forwarded message from Lionel Fourquaux This will have to be fixed by the EFS maintainers. You should send all bug reports concerning packages to the appropriate maintainers. In many cases Lisp packages are externally maintained and we just distribute the packages.) Forwarding to the leading maintainer, just in case. In this case we appreciate the report here too, since obviously it's a generic problem with Lisp programs that any "expect"-type application will face. >>>>> "Lionel" == Lionel Fourquaux <lionel.fourquaux(a)wanadoo.fr&gt; writes: Lionel> The problem seems to come from a localized message from Lionel> ftp.exe (the one that comes with Windows 2000). Is this message "localized" (ie, hard-coded) or "internationalized" (using switchable catalogs, with the appropriate language -- English -- available on your machine)?

That is, suppose you set the environment variable "LANG" to "C". Do you then get the French message, or do you get English?

The "right" solution to this kind of problem (short of AI) is to make the program speak the language that EFS expects. Emacs Lisp currently doesn't provide appropriate facilities for this, but it should. In the meantime, EFS can probably get away with temporarily setting LANG=C in Emacs's environment, starting the FTP process, then resetting it to whatever. (I don't know that the EFS maintainers will choose that solution, that's just the one I suggest.) In the long run, I think XEmacs should grab the user's locale out of the environment, stash it somewhere for reference (eg, to set up input methods), and then set its internal locale to "C" so that processes will start in a known state.