X11R7.5 and C.UTF-8

[Andy Koppe]

2009/11/28 Ken Brown:
> On 10/28/2009 6:07 PM, Andy Koppe wrote:
>>
>> 2009/10/28 Ken Brown:
>>>
>>> Maybe my terminology is wrong.  But if you start mintty with no .minttyrc
>>> and with LANG unset, mintty will set LANG=C.UTF-8.
>>
>> Yep. That's primarily for emacs' benefit, which parses the locale env
>> variables itself instead of using setlocale(LC_CTYPE, ""), thereby
>> missing out on Cygwin's default locale.
>
> Andy,
>
> I've sent a report about this to the emacs-devel list
> (http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2009-11/threads.html#01216).
>  But I don't have a good understanding of locale issues.  Could you take a
> look and see if what I said is accurate or if more should be said?

Thanks Ken, I think you've got that all correct, including pointing
the finger at mule-cmds.el as the suspect. I'll keep an eye on that
thread.

One more thing that might be worth mentioning is
'nl_langinfo(CODESET)' for enquiring about the character encoding.
(It's actually being used in a couple of places in the emacs sources
already, in fns.c and w32proc.c, but I don't know what significance
those files have.)

Andy

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