Re: address@hidden: latin-1 language environment and bash.exe under w2k]

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Sun, 11 Nov 2001, Karl Eichwalder wrote:

> "Eli Zaretskii" <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > AFAICS, the only difference between "German" and "Latin-1" is the
> > default input method (see lisp/language/european.el).
> 
> I don't know what process-coding-system is considered to manage, but
> usage of Latin-1 for »German« is different than for « French » (e.g.,
> different quotation rules).  Not to mention sorting orders (LC_COLLATE)
> or program messages (LC_MESSAGES); Emacs used to downcase German error
> messages wrongly.

This is all true, but it describes what Emacs does _not_ do
currently.  What Emacs doesn't do cannot possibly be a reason for some
bug, can it? ;-)

My reply was in the context of trying to figure out how come a call to
set-language-environment could have any effect on the shell not
finding programs in a shell buffer.  What Emacs does not do cannot
possibly affect that.