[luatex] Localisation of Lua or LuaTeX

[Patrick Gundlach]

> 
> Hence a french luatex document a colleague sends me will not work on my
> computer because it lacks the necessary locales, and probably my
> documents will not work on his computer for the same reason.  This is
> really bad news!  One of the great things about TeX is portability.

If you want portability, don't mess with system (locale, time, ...) dependent settings. French documents work with German installations, of course. 

Patrick