Re: parallel bootstrap failure; _prompt_? during bootstrap build

[Richard Stallman]

    > 
    > I don't know, but it is an interesting question.  Should Emacs call
    > set-locale-environment when running in batch mode?

    As I wrote elsewhere, it now seems to do that unconditionally.

    In general, since -batch may still imply prompts followed by keyboard
    input, I think we do need to set up keyboard encoding correctly.

When Emacs reads input in batch mode, does it do this decoding at all?
I don't know.  But since the input is coming from stdin, not from "the
keyboard", I think it is wrong to do any such decoding.  What if stdin
is a file?