Re: Gnu Emacs under Japanese MS Windows

[Ben Finney]

Ben Bullock <benkasminbullock@gmail.com> writes:

> As a postscript to this, yesterday I had a look at the work machine
> and found that LANG was set to C of all things. I can't understand
> how that happened.

IIRC, in the absence of any other setting, the locale settings default
to "C" for backwards compatibility (meaning "whatever the original C
libraries did before all this new-fangled internationalisation").

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Ben Finney