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>> Note that setting LANG to <foo>.UTF-8 works as well and should
>> be the preferred way to set those kinds of things, although I seem
>> to remember that Emacs-21.[12] specifically ignores it because the
>> utf-8 support is considered too poor in those versions.
> ... but there should be no settings which can _only_ be done via the
> LANG environment variable ('cause restarting emacs is a _bad_ thing!).

Of course.  But LANG should be set anyway for other applications...


        Stefan