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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, miles@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Setting file-name/process coding system from LANG
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 09:51:40 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvr7nuhlb3.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200410191313.WAA27071@etlken.m17n.org> (Kenichi Handa's message of "Tue, 19 Oct 2004 22:13:53 +0900 (JST)")

> Then a user can't recover that original setting when he once
> switch to, e.g., Latin-1.  Just switching back to Japanese
> can't setup coding systems for utf8.

M-x set-locale-environment RET

In my experience set-locale-environment has always been closer to what
I wanted to do than set-language-environment.
It also has the advantage of having a meaning outside of Emacs and of
conveniently separate the issue of language from the issue of coding-system.


        Stefan

  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-19 13:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-13  8:44 Setting file-name/process coding system from LANG Miles Bader
2004-10-15  0:25 ` Richard Stallman
2004-10-15  0:51   ` Miles Bader
2004-10-16 13:53     ` Richard Stallman
2004-10-17  0:14       ` Miles Bader
2004-10-25 13:13         ` Richard Stallman
2004-10-18 13:04       ` Kenichi Handa
2004-10-19  6:13         ` Richard Stallman
2004-10-19 13:13           ` Kenichi Handa
2004-10-19 13:51             ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2004-10-20  6:02               ` Kenichi Handa
2004-10-20 10:34               ` Richard Stallman
2004-10-19 21:51             ` Miles Bader
2004-10-20  6:21               ` Kenichi Handa
2004-10-20  8:50                 ` Miles Bader
2004-10-20 13:02                   ` Stefan Monnier
2004-10-20 10:34             ` Richard Stallman

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