Problem with (user-full-name) Character Encoding

Problem with (user-full-name) Character Encoding

[Nordlöw]

What variables control how (user-full-name) encodes its characters?

When I do eval (user-full-name) in "my" Emacs i get
  "Per Nordl\303\266w"

but when I do it in Vanilla Emacs it works correctly and outputs:
  "Per Nordlöw"

What variables control these encodings?

From the shell and from within my Emacs, using (getenv), LANG has the
correct value "sv_SE.UTF-8".

What variables have I missed?

Thanks in advance,
Nordlöw

Re: Problem with (user-full-name) Character Encoding

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Nordlöw <per.nordlow@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:34:29 -0800 (PST)
> 
> What variables control how (user-full-name) encodes its characters?
> 
> When I do eval (user-full-name) in "my" Emacs i get
>   "Per Nordl\303\266w"
> 
> but when I do it in Vanilla Emacs it works correctly and outputs:
>   "Per Nordlöw"
> 
> What variables control these encodings?
> 
> From the shell and from within my Emacs, using (getenv), LANG has the
> correct value "sv_SE.UTF-8".
> 
> What variables have I missed?

Try comparing the output of "M-x mule-diag RET" in both session, maybe
that will give you a clue.

Re: Problem with (user-full-name) Character Encoding

[Jason Rumney]

On Dec 18, 4:34 pm, Nordlöw <per.nord...@gmail.com> wrote:
> What variables control how (user-full-name) encodes its characters?

(user-full-name) without any arguments just returns the variable user-
full-name, which is encoded in Emacs internal encoding once set.  It
is probably initialised from your environment. which will be decoded
using locale-coding-system.

> From the shell and from within my Emacs, using (getenv), LANG has the
> correct value "sv_SE.UTF-8".

I'm not sure what has precedence, but some of the LC_* environment
variables also affect locale-coding-system, as will calling set-
language-environment from your .emacs.