Re: dired wrongly says no file on line with point

On Monday 21 October 2002 10:17 pm, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: I meant: what, if any, affect will changing from UTF-8 to POSIX in the environment have on XEmacs? IOW, does XEmacs sniff that variable? It was rather fortunate I ran into this, and posted it. I've been bad-mouthing Mathematica for having a screwed up display, and discovered that it too has a problem with the UTF-8 settings. Do you happen to know what determines how these locale settings affect the behavior of the OS, and programs? That is, what files and components are involved in defining the encodings? What actually changes when the values of the variables are modified? These are the variables in question: Tue Oct 22 03:42:12:> locale LANG=POSIX LC_CTYPE="POSIX" LC_NUMERIC="POSIX" LC_TIME="POSIX" LC_COLLATE=POSIX LC_MONETARY="POSIX" LC_MESSAGES="POSIX" LC_PAPER="POSIX" LC_NAME="POSIX" LC_ADDRESS="POSIX" LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX" LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX" LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX" LC_ALL= I've learned more about fonts, encodings, font formats, font servers, and related issues in the past month than I ever wanted to know. The most disturbing thing I learned is that there's a whole lot more to this than I ever imagined. Don't get me wrong, I find the characters used to encode human languages in written form to be truly beautiful. I also find the technology involved in reproducing on a computer screen, what is done fairly naturally with pen and ink, quite impressive. It's just that sometimes, I just want to _use_ my computer, not study it. :-) I haven't found time to research this, but I find it tantalizing: http://www.umass.edu/wsp/connections/sources/spp.html STH -- Hatton's Law: There is only One inviolable Law