Re: latin-1 language environment and bash.exe under w2k

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Harald.Maier.BW@t-online.de
> Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2001 10:41:56 +0100
> 
> --- .emacs-test ---
> (setq explicit-shell-file-name "bash.exe")
> (setq shell-file-name "bash.exe")
> ;(set-language-environment "Latin-1")
> --command ---------
> E:\usr\emacs-21.1\bin\runemacs.exe -q -no-site-file \
>   -l f:/home/maierh/.emacs-test
> -------------------
> 
> If I start the .emacs-test file above on a w2k environment without
> activating the latin-1 environment all works fine. If I set the
> language environment I get in the shell mode for all commands 'command
> not found'. E.g. 
> 
>   maierh@HESTIA [bin] $ls
>   : command not found

Thank you for your report.

This sounds unbelievable: what could Emacs language environment have
to do with finding programs?

Could you please show the value of process-environment with and
without setting the language environment?

>   maierh@HESTIA [bin] $echo $LANG
>   DEU

What does "DEU" as the value of LANG mean?  I understand that "DE"
means `Deutsch', but what does the "U" part mean?