Re: file-coding-system-alist and shell endless loop problem

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <address@hidden>, William Xu <address@hidden> writes:

> In GNU Emacs 22.1.50.6 (powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu)
>  of 2007-05-15 on think-different
> Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10300000
> configured using `configure  '--prefix=/home/william''

> Important settings:
>   value of $LC_ALL: zh_CN.utf-8
>   value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
>   value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
>   value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
>   value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
>   value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
>   value of $LC_TIME: nil
>   value of $LANG: zh_CN.UTF-8
>   locale-coding-system: utf-8
>   default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

I tried with that same locale, but still couldn't reproduce
the problem.  It may be a powerpc-specific problem.  Can
someone else using Emacs on that platform reproduced it?

By the way, you wrote:

> I find that `M-x shell' would end in some endless loop when
> `file-coding-system-alist' has been set to something like

Please do M-x toggle-debug-on-quit RET, and the M-x shell.
Does Emacs react on C-g when it seems to be in endless loop?
If so, what is shown in *Backtrace* buffer?

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Kenichi Handa
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