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Re: Emacs and UTF-8 locale
From: |
Dave Love |
Subject: |
Re: Emacs and UTF-8 locale |
Date: |
01 Jan 2002 17:43:49 +0000 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1.30 |
>>>>> Tomohiro KUBOTA writes:
> Thus, portable softwares should check environment variables when
> nl_langinfo() is not available, though this method can result in
> wrong encoding.
Emacs will be able to do that anyhow, even if nl_langinfo is
available.
>> From users' viewpoint, to declare encoding more clearly, it is a
>good idea to define LANG variable including codeset part.
Probably, in principle, but that doesn't work generally (outside
Emacs) e.g. try LC_CTYPE=en_GB.iso8859-15 on Debian testing.