Re: OSX terminal, system-wide Chinese input methods

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On Nov 21, 6:15 pm, Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyba...@Web.DE> wrote:
> Am 21.11.2008 um 05:37 schrieb Eric Abrahamsen:
>
> > (set-language-environment 'UTF-8)
>
> It might be better not to use this statement but have in the shell  
> from which you launch Carbon Emacs environment variables LANG and  
> LC_CTYPE which are set to some Chinese UTF-8 value, zh_TW.UTF-8,  
> zh_HK.UTF-8, zh_CN.UTF-8 – or can zh_CN.GB18030, zh_CN.GB2312,  
> zh_CN.GBK be more appropriate?
>
> Set-language-environment has many side-effects. If you're not content  
> with the new setup, you can use statements like
>
>         (prefer-coding-system 'utf-8-unix)
>         (prefer-coding-system 'utf-8)
>         (prefer-coding-system 'utf-8m)
>
> etc. to help Emacs do the right thing.

I think I've figured out another level to this problem -- when Chinese
input isn't working right, and then I use find-file to navigate into a
directory which is named in Chinese, I see the following in
*Messages*:

loading subst-gb2312...
loading subst-jis...

and a few other lines of that ilk, following which everything works
correctly. I've tried directly evaluating (load subst-gb2312) etc,
which simply produces an error. Does anyone know what this subst-*
means, and how I can load it automatically as a text-mode hook?

Thanks, Eric

>
> --
> Greetings
>
>    Pete
>
> Computers are good at following instructions, but not at reading your  
> mind.
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