From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dave Love Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: windows-1251 language environment Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 23:24:34 +0100 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200310032356.54476.pogonyshev@gmx.net> <200310060013.52049.pogonyshev@gmx.net> <200310070254.LAA11795@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 1066173413 16520 80.91.224.253 (14 Oct 2003 23:16:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 23:16:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: handa@m17n.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, Stefan Monnier , jasonr@f2s.com, pogonyshev@gmx.net Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 15 01:16:51 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A9YPL-0007qj-00 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2003 01:16:51 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A9YPK-00053Q-00 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2003 01:16:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1A9XhU-0003M2-1U for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Tue, 14 Oct 2003 18:31:32 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1A9XgI-0002Fg-9s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Oct 2003 18:30:18 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1A9XeJ-0008RY-No for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Oct 2003 18:28:46 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.41.8] (helo=mx20.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.24) id 1A9XbI-0003Wq-F3; Tue, 14 Oct 2003 18:25:08 -0400 Original-Received: from [148.79.80.39] (helo=albion.dl.ac.uk) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1A9Xb3-0005Mo-Ex; Tue, 14 Oct 2003 18:24:53 -0400 Original-Received: from fx by albion.dl.ac.uk with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A9Xak-0001mB-00; Tue, 14 Oct 2003 23:24:35 +0100 Original-To: rms@gnu.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.2 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:17098 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:17098 Richard Stallman writes: > This might make sense if these locale names are effectively standard. > They are not standardized by POSIX. Is there a de-facto standard? See `locale-language-names' and comments in it. The major problem is interpreting the codeset part in terms of a coding system since the names are quite variable. I don't know how the equivalent is supposed to work in MS Windows & al. > In general, I would prefer to have some Emacs-native way to do set > these things, rather than rely on an external data type such as a > locale name which is not defined naturally in Emacs terms. If you don't try to interpret it, Emacs probably won't behave consistently with other programs. Anyhow, you can set the coding priority and input method trivially, and they are the only relevant things at present.