Re: Proposal about adding cp1251 (Russian Windoz) encoding in Emacs

[Kenichi Handa <handa@etl.go.jp>]

In article <rzq8z2p1duq.fsf@albion.dl.ac.uk>, Dave Love <d.love@dl.ac.uk> writes:
> Kenichi Handa <handa@etl.go.jp> writes:
>>  But, I don't know if Emacs automatically switch to that
>>  lang. env. when started on Windows.  Does anyone know that?

> Regardless of what happens on Windows, and I don't think it does that,
> there isn't generally a language environment for all the relevant
> coding systems.

Dave, here, we are discussing about the latest CVS code
(i.e. trunk HEAD), not about the comming 21.3 (trunk RC).

And, in HEAD, you have already installed the language
environment Windows-1251.  So, the question is that whether
or not Windows port of Emacs running under the codepage
cp1251 can automatically set the language environment to
Windows-1251.  And, I don't know how Windows port decides
the language environment.

> I think processing locale specifications (and the
> Windows equivalent) should be done differently, but no-one seemed to
> agree when this last came up.  In particular, I was told it couldn't
> work under Windows the same way as POSIX, for reasons I couldn't
> follow.  (I haven't had a chance to implement something for Emacs 22.)

I understand that the current method is not that good, but
don't have time to provide any concrete solution.

> Note that windows-1251 & al aren't available until code-pages is
> explicitly required, since coding system autoloading wasn't installed
> and code-pages isn't preloaded.

Yes.  But, you setup HEAD so that selecting Windows-1251
lang. env. automatically loads code-pages.  Thus, in this
lang. env., there should be no problem with using the coding
system windows-1251.

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Ken'ichi HANDA
handa@etl.go.jp