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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 8517@debbugs.gnu.org, 611396-forwarded@bugs.debian.org,
	gernotk@gmail.com, rlb@defaultvalue.org
Subject: bug#8517: Can't handle utf8 encoded filenames in locale 'de_DE.utf8'
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2019 02:16:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ftlsbusd.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <838srlcmvp.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 22 Aug 2019 17:09:46 +0300")

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> Not sure why this is even important.  By default, Emacs takes the
> codeset part (i.e. the encoding it prefers) from the locale.  the
> above is only important if someone sets the language environment by
> hand.  Am I right?

You are.

The user had

(current-language-environment "German")

in ~/.emacs, and was surprised that this overrode the LANG settings.
But like I tried to say, that's what that invocation does, so this works
as designed.  (And the user should remove that setting.)

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no





  reply	other threads:[~2019-08-23  0:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-18  0:02 bug#8517: Can't handle utf8 encoded filenames in locale 'de_DE.utf8' Rob Browning
2019-08-21 20:56 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-08-22 14:09   ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-23  0:16     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2019-08-23  8:02       ` Eli Zaretskii

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