Re: text-quoting-style

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
> Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 08:00:36 -0700
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > E.g., start
> > Emacs in that way in such a locale, and then look at exec-path: if
> > there are any non-ASCII file names there, I expect you to see raw
> > bytes.
> 
> I'm afraid I still don't understand this sort of scenario.  Any environment in 
> which exec-path has unusual characters should be able to display those 
> characters; if not, it's misconfigured, and programs other than Emacs will have 
> trouble too.

When you set LC_ALL=C you "misconfigure" the environment.  The shell
is still running in the original locale, so the calls to getenv will
bring you the original non-ASCII characters.  (Or are you saying that
Posix systems will somehow convert the value of, say, PATH to adpat it
to the C locale?  Windows does such things, but I thought Posix
systems don't.)

When Emacs starts, it gets the values of various coding-systems,
including the one used for DECODE_SYSTEM, from the locale's codeset.
If you set LC_ALL=C, what will you get in locale-coding-system after
startup?  I don't think it will be your shell's codeset, will it?