yes/no translations

[Petr Pisar]

On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 08:56:01AM -0400, Remco Rijnders wrote:
> So, I started mutt as follows:
> 
> LANGUAGE=nl_NL mutt
> 
> Which changed the language of mutt, but none of the other settings. So, locale
> yesexpr was the same as the one you show. After also setting LC_MESSAGES to
> nl_NL, it shows what I'd expect:
> 
> LC_MESSAGES=nl_NL LANGUAGE=nl_NL locale yesexpr
> ^[+1jJyY]
> 
Maybe you want to set LANG variable instead of LANGUAGE or LC_MESSAGES
separately. See locale(7) manual for explanation how localization works. There
is "locale" command that prints how the locale categories are inherited.

LANGAUGE is a gettext-only extension (not reported by the locale command) for
defining a list of languages to try until the first language providing a
translation is found. See "info gettext -n 'The LANGUAGE variable'" command
output for more details. It's documented, that LANG, or LC_ALL still must be
set.

It's probably not intuitive that LANGUAGE does not influence a localization
of the yes-no prompts.

-- Petr
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