On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 8:17 PM, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>wrote:

>
> > Trying to make an 'inside-emacs' version of the same hack I discovered
> that
> > the following does the trick of removing the need for LANG=C.
>
> > (setq coding-system-for-write 'iso-latin-1)
> > (setq coding-system-for-read 'iso-latin-1)
>
> > Obviously this is not a proper solution.
> > Firstly these variables should not be globally assigned.  Whats the best
> > way of scoping these assignments or should some other variables be used I
> > am not sure.
>
> You should let-bind them around the `start-process' call.
>
>
I now have

(defun run-apl()
  "Major mode for running APlus under emacs"
  (interactive)
  (if (not (comint-check-proc "*a+*"))
      (let ((coding-system-for-write 'iso-latin-1)
        (coding-system-for-read 'iso-latin-1))
    (set-buffer (make-comint "a+" "a+"))))
  (setq apl-buffer "*a+*")
  (inferior-apl-mode)
  (pop-to-buffer "*a+*"))

Is this (use of let) the appropriate way?




> > The second point is that iso-latin-1 just works by saying so-to-speak
> > "Not-UTF" but it is obviously wrong.
>
> Yes, if it works, it's probably by accident.  It might be preferable to
> create a proper `apl' coding-system (use define-charset and then
> define-coding-system).
>
>
Thanks. I was looking for such functions.  I will of course have to study
code that uses them.  Any suggestions where to start?

Thanks
Rusi