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.) Andy -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
