From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Gregory Heytings Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#57531: 28.1; Character encoding missing for "eo" Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2022 15:15:51 +0000 Message-ID: References: <87h71r0w5z.fsf@jonreeve.com> <83h71qqq5e.fsf@gnu.org> <878rn1p7oz.fsf@jonreeve.com> <8335d8o6ow.fsf@gnu.org> <877d2kpfe1.fsf@jonreeve.com> <83o7vwmlet.fsf@gnu.org> <875yi4p6se.fsf@jonreeve.com> <831qsrn1im.fsf@gnu.org> <875yi31v17.fsf@linux-m68k.org> <83v8q3li60.fsf@gnu.org> <87wnajzj6z.fsf@linux-m68k.org> <83tu5nlgyy.fsf@gnu.org> <83r10rlf1l.fsf@gnu.org> <877d1fak51.fsf@gnus.org> <83r0znvk3t.fsf@gnu.org> <87tu4j7mvo.fsf@gnus.org> <83pmf5owyb.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=us-ascii Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="33379"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: jonathan@jonreeve.com, larsi@gnus.org, schwab@linux-m68k.org, 57531@debbugs.gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 06 17:52:41 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1ogTAt-0008MW-Dj for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 06 Oct 2022 17:52:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47690 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ogTAs-00012y-6O for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 06 Oct 2022 11:52:38 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:45402) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ogSbl-0001U3-Ep for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Oct 2022 11:16:23 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:34119) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ogSbS-0005Tm-Ie for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Oct 2022 11:16:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ogSbS-0000K9-Dj for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Oct 2022 11:16:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Gregory Heytings Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2022 15:16:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 57531 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: moreinfo Original-Received: via spool by 57531-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B57531.16650693561225 (code B ref 57531); Thu, 06 Oct 2022 15:16:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 57531) by debbugs.gnu.org; 6 Oct 2022 15:15:56 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33197 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ogSbM-0000Jg-FF for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 06 Oct 2022 11:15:56 -0400 Original-Received: from heytings.org ([95.142.160.155]:45070) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ogSbJ-0000JV-FD for 57531@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 06 Oct 2022 11:15:55 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=heytings.org; s=20220101; t=1665069352; bh=QyPXYnq2pUI2Y5LfSTyVE9E+X9DCGpfgeUanUPRjGMk=; h=Date:From:To:cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:Message-ID:References:From; b=KmHYZRofZhP4+xPE8/nHBHcnJ3mARVEzlj4Aul2ZAh/GJji7/TkKbCiADVdRkuzxP QNnlT3z4W45ijRIktYKSvFfs1uWwWAlUiR3AY6UDt/X38Cvy80PVLiio7wsFB4iBUZ jDiGuzBa+uk9eMXNhIvGTxody0huYlMJzC5MG+ZiKu/VPhYloCi8beqX43YwS5h8ql 7ZFuDPM6V8KZV3FhLwif7YQeg4LXITH/ODYbLJ4NY6uW0xW5sIjjletKlDmMj6wRPp lWBAuuuH2u/1rpSo0LSngC4Qqv837rmSBWiGtdeojEY9+PoEqd1TEsIYTMTVhOil7E PEYKP52hRwntg== In-Reply-To: <83pmf5owyb.fsf@gnu.org> X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:244681 Archived-At: >> To avoid such bugs, the most reasonable thing to do for users is to >> always specify the encoding. > > Should we perhaps have an entry in PROBLEMS with that information? > Would it not be better if Emacs checked the LANG environment variable on startup and warned the user when LANG does not specify an encoding? Like this: diff --git a/lisp/startup.el b/lisp/startup.el index 50a8f491d8..338fb47f64 100644 --- a/lisp/startup.el +++ b/lisp/startup.el @@ -824,6 +824,14 @@ normal-top-level (unless inhibit-startup-hooks (run-hooks 'window-setup-hook)))) + (when (< (length (split-string (getenv "LANG") "\\.")) 2) + (display-warning 'initialization + (format "%s%s%s" + "The LANG environment variable, set to `" + (getenv "LANG") + "', does not specify an encoding.") + :warning)) + ;; Subprocesses of Emacs do not have direct access to the terminal, so ;; unless told otherwise they should only assume a dumb terminal. ;; We are careful to do it late (after term-setup-hook), although the