standard-display-european warning

standard-display-european warning

[Daniel Barrett]

Just noticed this popup warning buffer when emacs starts up:

   Warning (i18n): `standard-display-european' is semi-obsolete

If you must display this warning, I suggest you also include the precise
function call to replace it (set-language-environment with specific
arguments, or whatever).  As is, the warning conveys little information,
and the docs for set-language-environment are too brief for me to
understand.

Hope this comment is useful.

emacs-version:
GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) of
2005-11-30

--
Dan Barrett
dbarrett@blazemonger.com

Re: standard-display-european warning

[Kevin Rodgers]

Daniel Barrett wrote:
> Just noticed this popup warning buffer when emacs starts up:
> 
>    Warning (i18n): `standard-display-european' is semi-obsolete
> 
> If you must display this warning, I suggest you also include the precise
> function call to replace it (set-language-environment with specific
> arguments, or whatever).  As is, the warning conveys little information,
> and the docs for set-language-environment are too brief for me to
> understand.
> 
> Hope this comment is useful.

The first thing I'd expect a user to do after reading that warning is
`C-h f standard-european-display', which does suggest replacing the call
with one to set-language-environment.  Calling it interactively (via
M-x) provides the user with completion on the valid LANGUAGE-NAME
argument values; it seems obvious that "Latin-1" is the value that
corresponds to the ISO 8859 European characters.

describe-language-environment also provides completion for
LANGUAGE-NAME, and then of course provides a very useful description.
Perhaps that could be mentioned in standard-european-display's doc
string to help the user select the right value.

-- 
Kevin Rodgers

Re: standard-display-european warning

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>
> Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2005 14:11:09 -0700
> 
> Daniel Barrett wrote:
> > Just noticed this popup warning buffer when emacs starts up:
> > 
> >    Warning (i18n): `standard-display-european' is semi-obsolete
> > 
> > If you must display this warning, I suggest you also include the precise
> > function call to replace it (set-language-environment with specific
> > arguments, or whatever).  As is, the warning conveys little information,
> > and the docs for set-language-environment are too brief for me to
> > understand.
> > 
> > Hope this comment is useful.
> 
> The first thing I'd expect a user to do after reading that warning is
> `C-h f standard-european-display', which does suggest replacing the call
> with one to set-language-environment.

I added an explicit reference to the doc string in the message text.