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Setting file-name/process coding system from LANG
From: |
Miles Bader |
Subject: |
Setting file-name/process coding system from LANG |
Date: |
Wed, 13 Oct 2004 17:44:16 +0900 |
I use "Japanese" language environment, and my LANG environment variable is
set to "ja_JP.UTF-8".
It seems to me that LANG should be enough to force filenames and process
I/O coding to use utf-8, regardless of the Emacs language-environment
setting -- after all, the language-environment is more of a broad hint how
to operate, whereas LANG can say specifically what coding system to use,
and will cause subprocesses to do their I/O in that coding system -- but
this doesn't seem to happen.
If I start emacs with -q, it will set things up correctly from LANG (so
for instance, starting a shell and do a ls will show utf-8 encoded
filenames correctly).
However, as soon as I do `M-x set-language-environment RET Japanese RET',
then default-file-name-coding-system gets set to `japanese-iso-8bit', and
the default coding system for process I/O is also `japanese-iso-8bit',
which is wrong.
I use the following code in my .emacs:
(when (and (getenv "LANG") (string-match "\\<utf-8$" (getenv "LANG")))
(setq file-name-coding-system 'utf-8)
(setq process-coding-system-alist '(("" . utf-8-unix))))
which forces them to use utf-8 instead, and this works, but I'd think
this shouldn't be necessary if I have LANG set.
[Note I'm currently using Emacs 22 (unicode branch), but the same thing
happens with CVS trunk Emacs.]
Thanks,
-Miles
--
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- Setting file-name/process coding system from LANG,
Miles Bader <=
- Re: Setting file-name/process coding system from LANG, Richard Stallman, 2004/10/14
- Re: Setting file-name/process coding system from LANG, Miles Bader, 2004/10/14
- Re: Setting file-name/process coding system from LANG, Kenichi Handa, 2004/10/18
- Re: Setting file-name/process coding system from LANG, Richard Stallman, 2004/10/19
- Re: Setting file-name/process coding system from LANG, Kenichi Handa, 2004/10/19
- Re: Setting file-name/process coding system from LANG, Stefan Monnier, 2004/10/19
- Re: Setting file-name/process coding system from LANG, Kenichi Handa, 2004/10/20