From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bjoern Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Very slow startup with UTF-8 locale Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2003 00:16:48 +0200 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1054592175 31028 80.91.224.249 (2 Jun 2003 22:16:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 22:16:15 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 03 00:16:13 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19MxbB-00084K-00 for ; Tue, 03 Jun 2003 00:16:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19Mxb7-00049Z-7f for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Jun 2003 18:16:09 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!129.187.19.220!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 32 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.187.19.220 Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1054592099 9789204 129.187.19.220 (16 [142197]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030507 X-Accept-Language: en, en-us In-Reply-To: Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:114010 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:10504 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:10504 Hello, I am just looking for a way to make emacs use utf-8 as the default encoding, and found your post. I'm curious about this fr_FR.UTF-8 sentence, what is it and how is it being used? Might there be a similiar thing for german or english language, that would set the default-encoding to utf-8? I couldn't find it in the manual :-( Many thanks for any help! Bjoern Jérôme Marant wrote: > Hi, > > I'm experiencing a very weird problem. > > When LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, it take one minute before Emacs (I tried 21.3 > and CVS HEAD) displays its main window. In the meantime, quite > no CPU is used. Locales are properly configured and generated. > It starts immediately when LANG=fr_FR. > > Did anyone experience such a problem? > > Thanks in advance. > > PS: please followup properly. Thx. >