Re: set-language-environment

[David Kastrup]

Peter Dyballa <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello!
>
> Setting this value to German executes line #2170 in mule-cmds.el:
>
>     ("de" "German" iso-8859-1)
>
> Since almost one decade we live in the Euro zone. Iso-8859-1 is
> completely wrong, iso-8859-15 is the right choice in the 8 bit
> encoding.

I don't think so.  "de" is iso-8859-1.  "address@hidden" is iso-8859-15.  The
problem is rather that we don't have the "@euro" correspondes in the
file.

> Look, here is a map of those countries that have the € as their
> local currency: http://www.ecb.de/bc/intro/html/map.en.html. In the
> next years more will follow.

Does not change the locale definitions magically.  Here are the
entries for "de" from /usr/share/i18/SUPPORTED on my system:

de_AT.UTF-8 UTF-8
de_AT ISO-8859-1
address@hidden ISO-8859-15
de_BE.UTF-8 UTF-8
de_BE ISO-8859-1
address@hidden ISO-8859-15
de_CH.UTF-8 UTF-8
de_CH ISO-8859-1
de_DE.UTF-8 UTF-8
de_DE ISO-8859-1
address@hidden ISO-8859-15
de_LU.UTF-8 UTF-8
de_LU ISO-8859-1
address@hidden ISO-8859-15

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