Re: ‘set-language-environment’ should set ‘language-unicode-precedence-list’ (was: XEmacs doesn't support windows-1252)

Ar an t-aonú lá is triochad de mí Iúil, scríobh Mike FABIAN: Agreed. I also need to add locale information to many of the language environments; I had thought I had done so, but evidently not. The reason there isn’t a German (UTF-8) locale available when you start in a Japanese UTF-8 locale, is that there is such a wide and legitimate variation in the coding systems used with a given language under Unix--English in ISO 8859-1 vs. English in ISO 8859-15 vs. English in UTF-8 vs. English in CP1252, to pick a simple example--that it makes more sense to pick one as canonical and create a variant if a corresponding LANG or LC_CTYPE is seen. If you want a German UTF-8 locale despite not having LANG as de_??.UTF-8 in your environment at startup, call: (set-language-environment (create-variant-language-environment "German" 'utf-8)) set-language-environment is supposed to be a cross-platform API, so my feeling is that we shouldn’t do this automatic generation of new language environments within it for what is essentially a Unix quirk; the system locales under Windows are basically fixed in the coding systems they use. But if you think otherwise, say so, and I’ll think about it some more. -- On the quay of the little Black Sea port, where the rescued pair came once 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) _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta