From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dave Love Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: environment variable don't get coding conversion Date: 28 Jan 2003 18:42:49 +0000 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200301170613.PAA12807@etlken.m17n.org> <200301200038.JAA16159@etlken.m17n.org> <200301252205.h0PM5gsx029853@beta.mvs.co.il> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1043779412 23862 80.91.224.249 (28 Jan 2003 18:43:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 18:43:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: handa@m17n.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18dahm-0006Ci-00 for ; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 19:43:30 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18dama-0004HH-00 for ; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 19:48:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18daiA-0004EC-06 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 13:43:54 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18dahm-0003gn-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 13:43:30 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18dahe-0003J4-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 13:43:23 -0500 Original-Received: from albion.dl.ac.uk ([148.79.80.39]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18dahA-0002fP-00; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 13:42:52 -0500 Original-Received: from fx by albion.dl.ac.uk with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 18dah7-0006uc-00; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 18:42:49 +0000 Original-To: rms@gnu.org Original-Lines: 10 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Original-cc: ehud@unix.mvs.co.il Original-cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:11166 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:11166 Richard Stallman writes: > That is true, now, in the normal case. The normal case is that Emacs > inherits the environment variable. When a subprocess of Emacs inherits it, > Emacs should make sure never to have modified it accidentally. Of course, if you modify the codeset-affecting locale variables, it's effectively screwed anyhow if you don't recognize the change and recode the environment. That's actually not so unreasonable if you're starting a shell session to test something, I think.