Re: bug in ~set-language-environment~ (was: XEmacs doesn't support windows-1252)
Ar an t-aonú lá is triochad de mí Iúil, scríobh Mike FABIAN:
[...] Please try this:
(setenv "LANG" "ja_JP.UTF-8")
(getenv "LANG")
→ "ja_JP.UTF-8"
(set-language-environment "Japanese")
(getenv "LANG")
→ "ja_JP.eucJP"
That is bad, ‘set-language-environment’ should not change the value of
LANG!
Well, LANG does determine what encoding subprocesses believe that data
passed to them from XEmacs is in, so there is a decent argument for XEmacs
to set it if it knows it’s going to be passing data in that encoding.
When I start my XEmacs in ja_JP.UTF-8 locale, I want subprocesses
started from XEmacs also use ja_JP.UTF-8 locale. But after
(set-language-environment "Japanese") subprocesses are suddenly
started in ja_JP.eucJP locale, which causes problems.
[...]
But changing from a xx_YY.UTF-8 locale to a locale with a non-UTF-8
encoding is just broken. It will cause problems for external programs
called from XEmacs.
Right. This has changed since you wrote your site-start.el; the current
situation is that when you start XEmacs in a ja_JP.UTF-8 locale like so:
env -i LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8 TERM=xterm ./xemacs -vanilla
the language environment information is initialised to:
current-language-environment
=> "Japanese (UTF-8)"
(assq 'native-coding-system (assoc current-language-environment
language-info-alist))
=> (native-coding-system . utf-8)
(getenv "LANG")
=> "ja_JP.UTF-8"
By the way, I reported this problem already some time ago, in
February
2004 (Message-ID: <s3tllmsmzym.fsf(a)magellan.suse.de>). But I cannot
find this message in the archive, it is in my outgoing mail archive
but it may not have reached the xemacs-beta list for whatever reason.
My local archive goes back to November 2004, so I don’t have it either. It
may well be that the work I did was in reaction to it, though.
--
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more into contact with civilization, Dobrinton was bitten by a dog which was
assumed to be mad, though it may only have been indiscriminating. (Saki)
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