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Locales
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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.

 - Variable: locale-coding-system
     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 of
     `format-time-string'.

 - Variable: system-messages-locale
     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.

 - Variable: system-time-locale
     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.