Re: Gnu Emacs under Japanese MS Windows

[Jason Rumney]

On 10 Nov, 02:40, "Ben Bullock" <benkasminbull...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks, I've upgraded the Emacs but unfortunately this new one is not quite
> as good as the one I removed.

There was a regression in the last week before 22.1 was released? Can
you be more specific?

> In fact the problems with the Japanese were
> solved by adding some things to .emacs:
>
> (prefer-coding-system 'shift_jis)
> (setq default-buffer-file-coding-system 'shift_jis)
> (setq file-name-coding-system 'shift_jis)
>
> (set-default-coding-systems 'shift_jis)
> (set-terminal-coding-system 'shift_jis)
>
> (set-keyboard-coding-system 'shift_jis)
> (set-language-environment 'Japanese)
>
> Now it works, although I'm not sure which bits are necessary and which
> aren't.

None of it should be necessary if you are using a Japanese version of
Windows, configured for Japanese as the default language for all
programs.