Re: how to change file coding system

[Reiner Steib]

On Fri, Aug 26 2005, Peter Dyballa wrote:

> Am 25.08.2005 um 09:52 schrieb Martin Monsorno:
>
>> | Current language environment: UTF-8
>>
>
> There is nowhere in this world a language ``UTF-8´´, even Esperanto is 
> ``Esperanto´´. 

But it's a valid language environment in Emacs.

> Try it again with German and do yourself a favour and set LC_ALL to
> an UTF-8 value! Then check the multibyte awareness again!

I don't think LANG and LC_* affect the multibyte awareness of Emacs,
CMIIW.  LC_ALL is almost never a good idea, except for testing.

Maybe Martin has set EMACS_UNIBYTE or is using --unibyte?

(I didn't read the whole thread.  Sorry, if I'm missing something.)

Bye, Reiner.
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