David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote:
> Sascha Wilde <wilde@sha-bang.de> writes:
>> So, what about the idea I sketched in my patch?
>
> The proper fix would be to have something more fine-grained than
> language-environment inside of Emacs.
>
> Until such a time, your fix appeared like the right thing to do at
> that junction to me.  Your patch (I am going my memory here) has the
> disadvantage that it might look up the empty string as a language
> explicitly, expecting it to turn up nil.  That's sort of ugly.

Here a revised version of the patch: