On 2011-04-15 05:46 +0200, Rob Browning wrote: > Sven Joachim <svenj...@gmx.de> writes: > >> On 2011-01-28 23:05 +0100, Gernot Kieseritzky wrote: > >>> When I remove '(current-language-environment "German"), the problem does >>> not occur any more in a regular emacs session. >> >> Yeah, this line causes Emacs to prefer the latin-1 legacy encoding. It >> had better not do this these days, but that is another story. >> >>> Mhmm, but I guess this is needed e.g. for spellchecker. >> >> No, Emacs sets that up according to the locale settings by default. > > So Sven, do you think this should be considered an upstream bug, a > configuration problem, or something else?
Mostly a configuration problem. I suspect that many people had put calls to set-language-environment into their .emacs back in the days when this was in fact useful, and now that they switched to UTF-8 locales it is going to bite them. It is certainly unfortunate that most language environments prefer legacy coding systems, and maybe UTF-8 should be always put on top unless the locale settings imply otherwise. That could be topic for a lengthy discussion upstream (no, I'm not going to start one). Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
