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bug#8517: Can't handle utf8 encoded filenames in locale 'de_DE.utf8'
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#8517: Can't handle utf8 encoded filenames in locale 'de_DE.utf8' |
Date: |
Fri, 23 Aug 2019 11:02:51 +0300 |
> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: 8517@debbugs.gnu.org, 611396-forwarded@bugs.debian.org,
> gernotk@gmail.com, rlb@defaultvalue.org
> Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2019 02:16:34 +0200
>
> The user had
>
> (current-language-environment "German")
>
> in ~/.emacs, and was surprised that this overrode the LANG settings.
> But like I tried to say, that's what that invocation does, so this works
> as designed. (And the user should remove that setting.)
The user should either remove that setting or follow it by
(prefer-coding-system 'WHATEVER)
if the default preferences are not to their liking.