Re: standard-display-european (was: emacs from cvs on GNU dumps core when opening any kind of c file)

[Han Boetes]

Reiner Steib wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 20 2004, Han Boetes wrote:
> 
> > echo '(standard-display-european t)' > .emacs
> > emacs some/c/file.c
> >
> > and there is the core-dump.
> > This happens since the beginning of august.
> 
> `standard-display-european' is obsolete (IIRC at least since Emacs
> 20.7).   You should probably use (set-language-environment "Latin-1")
> or omit it completely (Emacs does the right thing when your locales
> are set up correctly).
> 
> `standard-display-european' leads to incorrect behavior of Gnus.  Is
> there a good reason to keep this function in Emacs 21.4?
> 
> ,----[ C-h f standard-display-european RET ]
> | standard-display-european is a compiled Lisp function in `disp-table'.
> | (standard-display-european arg)
> | 
> | Semi-obsolete way to toggle display of ISO 8859 European characters.
> | 
> | This function is semi-obsolete; if you want to do your editing with
> | unibyte characters, it is better to `set-language-environment' coupled
> | with either the `--unibyte' option or the EMACS_UNIBYTE environment
> | variable, or else customize `enable-multibyte-characters'.
> `----

Thanks for the additional information, I'll update my .emacs.

But I think you will agree with me that emacs should not  dump core. :)

Perhaps give a warning in *messages* about a deprecated setting?



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