From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Setting file-name/process coding system from LANG Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 09:51:40 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200410181304.WAA24091@etlken.m17n.org> <200410191313.WAA27071@etlken.m17n.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1098193949 11001 80.91.229.6 (19 Oct 2004 13:52:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 13:52:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, miles@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 19 15:52:04 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CJuPD-0005rJ-00 for ; Tue, 19 Oct 2004 15:52:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CJuWY-0003ab-Kp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Oct 2004 09:59:38 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CJuWK-0003Zz-IJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Oct 2004 09:59:24 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CJuWK-0003Zn-3b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Oct 2004 09:59:24 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CJuWK-0003Zk-0E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Oct 2004 09:59:24 -0400 Original-Received: from [132.204.24.67] (helo=mercure.iro.umontreal.ca) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CJuOu-00027l-N6; Tue, 19 Oct 2004 09:51:44 -0400 Original-Received: from hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.50]) by mercure.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55F488282AF; Tue, 19 Oct 2004 09:51:43 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from asado.iro.umontreal.ca (asado.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.24.84]) by hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 647904AC767; Tue, 19 Oct 2004 09:51:40 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: by asado.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 53BD48CA23; Tue, 19 Oct 2004 09:51:40 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: Kenichi Handa In-Reply-To: <200410191313.WAA27071@etlken.m17n.org> (Kenichi Handa's message of "Tue, 19 Oct 2004 22:13:53 +0900 (JST)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-DIRO-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-DIRO-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-DIRO-MailScanner-SpamCheck: n'est pas un polluriel, SpamAssassin (score=0, requis 5) X-MailScanner-From: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:28604 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:28604 > 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