Re: UTF-8-encoded output in Emacs shell

[kj]

In <hjkc71$fco$1@reader1.panix.com> kj <no.email@please.post> writes:

>I have a Python script that writes UTF-8-encoded Japanese text to
>stdout.  This script produces nice-looking Japanese output when I
>run it on my regular shell, running on OS X's Terminal utility.
>But if I start "emacs -nw" the same Terminal window, then from
>within the Emacs session I start a new shell (with M-x shell), and
>now run the script within this Emacs-internal shell, the output
>looks like garbage.  ("Gobbledygook" is the technical term for
>this, I think.)

>What must I do to get the right-looking Japanese output when I run
>this script within Emacs?

>(BTW, I naively tried setting the coding for the *shell* buffer to
>utf-8, with M-x set-buffer-file-coding-system, but this had no
>effect.  But, from Tomas's reply to an earlier query of mine, this
>maneuver may not be enough in any case, or may be meaningless in
>a buffer like *shell* that is not associated to a file.)

>TIA!

>~K


I forgot to mention, FWIW, that in the shell running inside Emacs,
my TERM environment variable is set to "emacs", whereas in my
Terminal shell this variable is set to "xterm-color".

~K