Re: X11R7.5 and C.UTF-8

[Ken Brown <kbrown at cornell dot edu>]

On 11/28/2009 8:34 AM, Andy Koppe wrote:
> 2009/11/28 Ken Brown:
> > On 10/28/2009 6:07 PM, Andy Koppe wrote:
> > > 2009/10/28 Ken Brown:
> > > > Maybe my terminology is wrong.  But if you start mintty with no .minttyrc
> > > > and with LANG unset, mintty will set LANG=C.UTF-8.
> > > Yep. That's primarily for emacs' benefit, which parses the locale env
> > > variables itself instead of using setlocale(LC_CTYPE, ""), thereby
> > > missing out on Cygwin's default locale.
> > Andy,
> >
> > I've sent a report about this to the emacs-devel list
> > (http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2009-11/threads.html#01216).
> >  But I don't have a good understanding of locale issues.  Could you take a
> > look and see if what I said is accurate or if more should be said?
>
> Thanks Ken, I think you've got that all correct, including pointing
> the finger at mule-cmds.el as the suspect. I'll keep an eye on that
> thread.
>
> One more thing that might be worth mentioning is
> 'nl_langinfo(CODESET)' for enquiring about the character encoding.
> (It's actually being used in a couple of places in the emacs sources
> already, in fns.c and w32proc.c, but I don't know what significance
> those files have.)

w32proc.c doesn't get compiled in the Cygwin build, but fns.c does.  The 
call to nl_langinfo(CODESET) is in the definition of the locale-info 
function, which provides a way for emacs to determine the CODESET.  I've 
passed this on to the emacs-devel list.  Thanks for the help.

Ken

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