LANG de_DE.UTF-8 (was: coding problem with babel.el (babelfish interface))

Uwe Brauer writes: Initialization of coding system preferences is different. I don't think anybody has really worked on that since Ben completely reworked the coding detection code in 2005 or so (Aidan did a little bit to make sure that where UTF-8 is default it gets precedence). Traditional Unix and many Internet protocols still default to ISO-8859-1 (or even ASCII, cf RFC 5322 and MIME), so we haven't been in a hurry to prefer UTF-8 unless the user says otherwise. Maybe it's time to do that, except on Windows. BTW, in my experience, GNU Emacs Mule is way too presumptuous about guessing what the user wants. That's one reason why I use XEmacs. _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://lists.xemacs.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta