From: Alexander Shukaev <haroogan@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Autogen in Emacs Shell
Date: Fri, 1 May 2015 20:35:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKu-7WzYdBuUDPF6Yv45nOFdjMz6mh4Yhb69EN0HGCZpbg=SGA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83sibgqjb3.fsf@gnu.org>
>
> > Right, so explicitly doing
> >
> > (setenv "LANG" "en_US.UTF-8")
> >
> > solves both problems at once. Interesting... Do you have any comments on
> that?
> > Maybe clarifications on why this problem occurs? For instance, why
> `LANG' is
> > properly set in ConEmu, while in Emacs it has value `ENU'?
>
> Because the Windows locale names are different from Posix locale
> names.
>
> > Where does this even come from?
>
> From w32.c:init_environment:
>
> /* Get default locale info and use it for LANG. */
> if (GetLocaleInfo (LOCALE_USER_DEFAULT,
> LOCALE_SABBREVLANGNAME | LOCALE_USE_CP_ACP,
> locale_name, sizeof (locale_name)))
> {
> for (i = 0; i < N_ENV_VARS; i++)
> {
> if (strcmp (env_vars[i].name, "LANG") == 0)
> {
> env_vars[i].def_value = locale_name;
> break;
> }
> }
> }
>
> > Is it OK to do
> >
> > (setenv "LANG" "en_US.UTF-8")
>
> Not if you want the rest of locale-specific code in Emacs itself to
> work, no.
>
> Why does a native Windows program such as bsdtar expect a Posix-style
> locale spec? It's a bug, IMO. The MS-Windows implementation of
> 'setlocale' will not work with Posix locale specs.
>
> > or there is some other more generic way?
>
> There's no generic way. Locale names and specifications are not
> portable between Posix and non-Posix systems.
>
>
I see. Thanks, Eli.
Finally, do you have any comments on the issue
with "~/emacs.d/init_bash.sh" that I've described before. Let me introduce
another test case briefly. Put
# Hello, World!
# Hello, World!
# Hello, World!
into "~/emacs.d/init_bash.sh".
Then start 'bash' from Emacs. Here is what I see:
2015.05.01 Friday 20:30:46
Haroogan@G75VW:~
$
2015.05.01 Friday 20:30:46
Haroogan@G75VW:~
$
2015.05.01 Friday 20:30:46
Haroogan@G75VW:~
$
2015.05.01 Friday 20:30:46
Haroogan@G75VW:~
$
Those 3 newlines were really typed into the shell. How come?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-05-01 18:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-04-29 2:36 Autogen in Emacs Shell Alexander Shukaev
2015-04-29 8:31 ` tomas
2015-04-29 15:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-30 18:14 ` Alexander Shukaev
2015-04-30 19:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-30 19:44 ` Alexander Shukaev
2015-04-30 19:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-05-01 9:26 ` tomas
2015-05-01 14:33 ` Alexander Shukaev
2015-05-01 14:46 ` Alexander Shukaev
2015-05-01 15:03 ` tomas
2015-05-01 16:08 ` Alexander Shukaev
2015-05-01 17:06 ` Alexander Shukaev
2015-05-01 17:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-05-01 18:35 ` Alexander Shukaev [this message]
2015-05-01 18:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-05-01 19:05 ` Alexander Shukaev
2015-05-01 19:07 ` Alexander Shukaev
2015-05-01 19:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-05-01 19:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-05-01 19:46 ` Alexander Shukaev
2015-05-02 6:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
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