From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Florian Lindner Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Mac OS and Unicode Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2008 13:06:49 +0000 (UTC) Organization: [posted via] Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, Muenchen (Germany) Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1202566888 14232 80.91.229.12 (9 Feb 2008 14:21:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2008 14:21:28 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 09 15:21:49 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JNqaS-0003DM-Po for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Feb 2008 15:21:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JNqZz-0005ZZ-Ot for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Feb 2008 09:21:19 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!news-fra1.dfn.de!news-mue1.dfn.de!lrz.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 51 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: r098153.ga2.swh.mhn.de Original-X-Trace: news.lrz-muenchen.de 1202562409 19794 10.149.98.153 (9 Feb 2008 13:06:49 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@lrz-muenchen.de Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2008 13:06:49 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Nemo 0.8.185 beta (Mac OS X 10.5.1 [Intel]) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:155995 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 09 Feb 2008 09:18:04 -0500 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:51374 Archived-At: In article Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote: > + Florian Lindner : >> Well, even if I use the terminal (which has the locale set) to >> start emacs it does not work. > Hmm. Well, if so it won't help to set the environment variable by > other means. Just to be sure, you can check the variable > "process-environment" in emacs to check if LANG (if that's the one > you're using) is set. Youcheck it using C-h v process-environment > RET. Ok, now I see it's set correctly if emacs is started from terminal.app but not when started with Spotlight. >> Furthermore I haven't found the preference pane you were talking >> about neither is ~/.MacOSX existing. > Sorry, I should have made myself clear. That preference pane is not > standard on Mac OS X. You'll have to download it from the net and > install it. Google should find it for you. ~/.MacOSX does not > usually exist either, but RCEnvironment will create it and the > environment.plist file inside it. (You can edit it by hand, or use > the property list editor, but that requires a bit of knowledge - > which can also be gottenfrom the net, but using RCEnvironment is > easier.) I have created that file and edited with the property list editor. florian@r098153 ~: cat .MacOSX/environment.plist "> LANG de_DE.UTF-8 and rebooted my machine. But still C-h v process-environment shows no LANG variable when started from spotlight. Regards, Florian -- I'm using an evaluation license of nemo since 60 days. You should really try it! http://www.malcom-mac.com/nemo