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"Stefan Monnier <foo@acm.com>" <monnier+gnu.emacs.help/news/@flint.cs.yale.edu> writes:
> 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!).

-Miles
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