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Improve locale implementation (should now behave identically to bash) and document locale variables behaviour

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@@ -655,6 +655,7 @@ values of these variables. They are:
- \c PWD, which is the current working directory.
- \c status, which is the exit status of the last foreground job to exit. If a job contains pipelines, the status of the last command in the pipeline is the status for the job.
- \c USER, which is the username. This variable can only be changed by the root user.
- \c LANG, \cLC_ALL, \c LC_COLLATE, \c LC_CTYPE, \cLC_MESSAGES, \c LC_MONETARY, \c LC_NUMERIC and LC_TIME set the language option for the shell and subprograms. See the section <a href='#variables-locale'>Locale variables</a> for more information.
Variables whose name are in uppercase are exported to the commands
started by fish. This rule is not enforced by fish, but it is good
@@ -663,6 +664,22 @@ unexported variables. \c fish also uses several variables
internally. Such variables are prefixed with the string __FISH or
__fish. These should be ignored by the user.
\subsection variables-locale Locale variables
The most common way to set the locale to use a command like 'set -x
LANG en_GB.utf8', which sets the current locale to be the english
language, adapted to great britain, using the UTF-8 character set. For
a list of available locales, use 'locale -a'.
\c LANG, \cLC_ALL, \c LC_COLLATE, \c LC_CTYPE, \cLC_MESSAGES, \c
LC_MONETARY, \c LC_NUMERIC and LC_TIME set the language option for the
shell and subprograms. These variables work as follows: \c LC_ALL
forces all the aspects of the locale to the specified value. If LC_ALL
is set, all other locale variables will be ignored. The other LC_
variables set the specified aspect of the locale information. . LANG
is a fallback value, it will be used if none of the LC_ variables are
specified.
\section builtin-overview Builtins
Many other shells have a large library of builtin commands. Most of