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bug#22392: 25.0.50; NS Emacs run from OS X GUI doesn't set locale
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#22392: 25.0.50; NS Emacs run from OS X GUI doesn't set locale |
Date: |
Tue, 19 Jan 2016 18:03:22 +0200 |
> From: Random832 <random832@fastmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2016 17:09:02 -0500
> Cc: 22392@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> I'm incidentally not sure that it's really appropriate for windows,
> either - there, it should be using windows-1252, not iso-latin-1.
I don't remember any complaints about that. The related code is very
old.
> I have to wonder how Emacs behaves on versions of windows whose
> default codepage is not a trivial superset of an ISO one.
See locale-language-names. Which locales and codepages did you have
in mind, specifically?
> The proper encoding should be able to be determined by the GetACP
> function, and should always be a windows codepage.
Depends on what the proper encoding will be used for. In general
Windows has 2 - 3 pertinent codepages at any given time, each one used
for different purposes. (Emacs also has several coding-systems to set
by default.)
bug#22392: Emacs OS X GUI doesn't set locale, Random832, 2016/01/30