From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ben Bullock Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Gnu Emacs under Japanese MS Windows Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 22:40:34 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Academic New Town Community Cable Service Message-ID: References: <1194570171.261210.234480@y27g2000pre.googlegroups.com> <1194620929.862788.139380@y27g2000pre.googlegroups.com> <1194655392.447673.257780@v2g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> <1194881338.645107.274660@k79g2000hse.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1194910843 24785 80.91.229.12 (12 Nov 2007 23:40:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 23:40:43 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 13 00:40:47 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IritR-0006QW-Cs for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Nov 2007 00:40:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IritF-0006Vq-5Q for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 18:40:25 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news2.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!newsfeed2.kddnet.ad.jp!newsfeed2.kddnet.ad.jp!feed1.sphere.ad.jp!210.173.160.120.MISMATCH!mfeed-news!news-gw1.ocn.ad.jp!news-gw2.ocn.ad.jp!nd-tk001.ocn.ad.jp!210.235.48.70.MISMATCH!news.accsnet.ne.jp!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan,gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 37 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 73.252.accsnet.ne.jp Original-X-Trace: ml.accsnet.ne.jp 1194907234 17455 202.220.252.73 (12 Nov 2007 22:40:34 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.accsnet.ne.jp Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 22:40:34 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Pan/0.129 (Benson & Hedges Moscow Gold) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu sci.lang.japan:212297 gnu.emacs.help:153729 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:49179 Archived-At: On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 15:28:58 +0000, Jason Rumney wrote: > On 10 Nov, 02:40, "Ben Bullock" wrote: > >> Thanks, I've upgraded the Emacs but unfortunately this new one is not >> quite as good as the one I removed. > > There was a regression in the last week before 22.1 was released? Can > you be more specific? The old version was the one from EmacsW32, which was better integrated into Windows XP than the bare Gnu one. For example, the bare Gnu one doesn't get registered somehow, so when Windows asks you for options for using on a particular file, the choice of Emacs doesn't come up. With EmacsW32, it worked better in various ways including this one. >> In fact the problems with the Japanese were solved by adding some >> things to .emacs: >> >> (prefer-coding-system 'shift_jis) >> (setq default-buffer-file-coding-system 'shift_jis) (setq >> file-name-coding-system 'shift_jis) >> >> (set-default-coding-systems 'shift_jis) (set-terminal-coding-system >> 'shift_jis) >> >> (set-keyboard-coding-system 'shift_jis) (set-language-environment >> 'Japanese) >> >> Now it works, although I'm not sure which bits are necessary and which >> aren't. > > None of it should be necessary if you are using a Japanese version of > Windows, configured for Japanese as the default language for all > programs. Well, it is.