From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to select the default coding system
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 05:46:59 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83a95x3asc.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAA2XvwLMZEwnR0FcVHFqV-Lu8ebzXjuuYxnej_DpgB1aLbuVyw@mail.gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 16:05:04 +0200
> From: Mikael Djurfeldt <mikael@djurfeldt.com>
> Cc: Mikael Djurfeldt <mikael@djurfeldt.com>
>
> Q: What is the natural way to specify the default coding system,
> preferrably using the GUI (to facilitate things for this novel user).
It's supposed to be automatically set according to the user's locale.
If that user's locale is not UTF-8, then please ask them to provide
the details why they want UTF-8 nonetheless, because it could bite
them down the road.
To answer your question more directly, the command to set up a
certain locale environment is "M-x set-locale-environment". It
accepts the "pseudo-environment" "utf-8", as well as "normal" locale
names, such as "en_US.8859-1".
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-18 2:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-17 14:05 How to select the default coding system Mikael Djurfeldt
2014-09-18 2:46 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2014-09-21 1:13 ` Grant Rettke
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