Re: Somehow disp-table.el gets loaded on Mac OS X

[Stefan]

>> So, which terminal-coding-system should we set by default when LANG is
>> de_DE.UTF-8(en_US.UTF-8), iso-latin-1 or utf-8?

The terminal coding system does not necessarily depend on LANG.
It seems that OSX's Terminal.app uses utf-8 by default, independently from
any locale.  Maybe it can be set to something else, of course.

The problem I have now is: how can we detect when Emacs is running in
Terminal.app.  The TERM envvar is set to xterm-color, just like it is in
several X11 terminals (which don't use utf-8 by default).

> UTF-8 should be the natural/native encoding in dired-mode, shell,
> shell-command-on-region, find-grep.

file-name-coding-system on OSX already defaults to utf-8.

> And a different object is Carbon Emacs!

When running in Terminal.app, it should be no different.

> Although too a Mac OS X binary it comes directly from Mac OS 9 and seems
> to have no good idea of Unicode and UTF-8.

I do not know from where you get this misconception.  It handles Unicode
*exactly* like the rest since it's using the exact same code.

> It's fontsets are Mac-Roman oriented and it's close to impossible for
> Latin scripts to use the whole spectrum.

Maybe the default font settings need to be changed.

> 'defaults read com.apple.Terminal StringEncoding' would reveal the default
> encoding of Terminal,

   % defaults read com.apple.Terminal StringEncoding
   2005-03-23 07:43:09.466 defaults[9360] 
   The domain/default pair of (com.apple.Terminal, StringEncoding) does not 
exist
   % 


-- Stefan