Re: [Bug-AUCTeX] Re: preview-1.248; preview completely broken?

[David Kastrup]

address@hidden (R.P.I. Lewis) writes:

> David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:
>
>>> I have
>>>
>>> $ locale
>>> LANG=
>
>> Wow.  Yes, that would probably be like it.
>>
>> LANG=en_US
>>
>> would be a good choice for typical systems, unless your C library does
>> not support locales at all.  I found that calling "perl" without
>> arguments is one way to figure out whether a specific locale setting
>> is supported: perl tends to complain rather loudly if not.
>
> hmm perl complains if i set LANG to en_US, but it doesn't care if
> LANG is empty.  oh well.

Maybe you have no locale support at all installed for your system.  An
unsupported spec is worse than an empty one.

This will probably mean that Emacs will ask whenever you try saving a
file with international characters.

>>>> Can you write files without Emacs asking for a coding system?
>>>
>>> i've never been asked anything (and files save fine)
>>
>> Presumably if they are ASCII-only, no weird 8bit characters.
>
> i suppose i've not had occaision to create a new file with non-ascii
> on this system yet

Fair enough.

>> I have committed the following fix to preview.el which should help
>> in your case.
>
> yes that has fixed it, thanks for the help.

Well, the thanks are on my side.  People that check out the CVS
versions help us keeping the release bugs to a less embarrassing
level.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum