Re: Setting file-name/process coding system from LANG

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

>> And, that means that even if one changes to latin-1 lang. env.,
>> file-name-coding-system is still utf-8.  Is it ok?

There is no latin-1 language, so the "latin-1 lang env" is an ill-defined
concept anyway.  Thus we can make it behave any way we want.

> Yes, asking users to use set-locale-environment instead of
> set-language-environment is one way.  But, I've thought that
> set-locale-environment is not a command we usually ask a
> user to use, but a function that runs at startup time.  Do
> you mean to recommend users to use set-locale-environment
> always?

Yes, kind of.  I'm not sure exactly what I want, but I just know that the
structure in locales (mostly the distinction between language and encoding)
is very helpful.  I think we should move set-language-environment in
this direction, or make set-locale-environment easier to use interactively
and then recommend that.


        Stefan