Re: Gnu Emacs under Japanese MS Windows

["Ben Bullock" <benkasminbullock@gmail.com>]

"Jason Rumney" <jasonrumney@gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:1194944384.261646.303620@v65g2000hsc.googlegroups.com...

> There's another setting on the third tab of that dialog. In English,
> it is labelled "Language for non-Unicode programs", but that is
> misleading, since it is what determines the language that is returned
> from all the locale functions, whether Unicode or not. The settings on
> the first page only affect things like number formatting.

In my case it looks like this:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bnz/2014240467/

As you can see it is set to 日本語 (Japanese). I don't believe this is 
because of something I have set up with just my home computer, since I have 
a virtually identical Windows XP computer at work, and Emacs behaves in 
exactly the same way there - it refuses to acknowledge the existence of any 
files in

C:\Documents and Settings\bkb\デスクトップ\

even though this is the directory which comes up by default when I press C-x 
C-f, and (without the shift-jis parts in .emacs) it mojibakes the directory 
names. I haven't tried using the shift-JIS thing copied from Evan Monroig's 
.emacs at work yet, but I am sure that Gnu Emacs behaves this way on at 
least two standard Japanese Windows XP PCs.