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-- forwarded message: -- Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 09:52:20 +0200 (IST) From: Eli Zaretskii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: UTF-8 locale On Sun, 16 Dec 2001, Richard Stallman wrote: > Recent changes in mule-cmds.el automatically turn on the UTF-8 > locale when $LANG says so. > > For which values of LANG does Emacs use UTF-8? Those which match the regexp ".*utf\\(-?8\\)\\>". > Also, what exactly does Emacs do to use it? It sets the language environment to "utf-8", and sets the default and preferred coding systems to utf-8. It also sets the default input method. > Since Emacs (mostly) doesn't use locales for its own work, > I'm not sure just what "turn on the UTF-8 locale" refers to. The values of LANG/LC_ALL are used to set the language environment and the locale-coding-system (the latter is used on X for decoding X keysyms, which is important when the keyboard sends non-ASCII keysyms, like with dead keys). That is what I meant by ``turning on the UTF-8 locale''; sorry for the vague wording. -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
