default value of terminal-coding-system

[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?

At least on reasonably recent xterms, it needs to be utf-8.
On older xterms, I'd expect people don't use a utf-8 locale anyway.
How 'bout the patch below?


        Stefan


Index: mule-cmds.el
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RCS file: /cvsroot/emacs/emacs/lisp/international/mule-cmds.el,v
retrieving revision 1.266
diff -u -u -b -r1.266 mule-cmds.el
--- mule-cmds.el        15 Mar 2005 02:32:23 -0000      1.266
+++ mule-cmds.el        24 Mar 2005 16:56:59 -0000
@@ -1734,7 +1734,7 @@
 
 (reset-language-environment)
 
-(defun set-display-table-and-terminal-coding-system (language-name)
+(defun set-display-table-and-terminal-coding-system (language-name 
coding-system)
   "Set up the display table and terminal coding system for LANGUAGE-NAME."
   (let ((coding (get-language-info language-name 'unibyte-display)))
     (if coding
@@ -1748,7 +1748,7 @@
        (dotimes (i 128)
          (aset standard-display-table (+ i 128) nil))))
     (or (eq window-system 'pc)
-       (set-terminal-coding-system coding))))
+       (set-terminal-coding-system (or coding-system coding)))))
 
 (defun set-language-environment (language-name)
   "Set up multi-lingual environment for using LANGUAGE-NAME.
@@ -1830,7 +1830,7 @@
            (with-current-buffer (car list)
              (set-case-table (standard-case-table)))
            (setq list (cdr list))))))
-    (set-display-table-and-terminal-coding-system language-name))
+    (set-display-table-and-terminal-coding-system language-name nil))
 
   (let ((required-features (get-language-info language-name 'features)))
     (while required-features
@@ -2446,7 +2446,8 @@
          ;; we are using single-byte characters,
          ;; so the display table and terminal coding system are irrelevant.
          (when default-enable-multibyte-characters
-           (set-display-table-and-terminal-coding-system language-name))
+           (set-display-table-and-terminal-coding-system
+            language-name coding-system))
 
          ;; Set the `keyboard-coding-system' if appropriate (tty
          ;; only).  At least X and MS Windows can generate