Re: Locales, Mutt, OpenOffice, Emacs

[Tatsuya Kinoshita <tats@vega.ocn.ne.jp>]

On November 1, 2002 at 6:12PM +0100,
Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.org> wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 01:36:50 +0900, Tatsuya Kinoshita wrote:
> > Unfortunately, (terminal-coding-system) is nil in Emacs even if
> > the LANG envionment variable is set to `en_US.UTF-8'.  So, the
> > above configuration is required on the UTF-8 terminal.
> 
> But what if one uses sometimes ISO-8859-1 and sometimes UTF-8?

If the LANG environment variable is `en_US', Emacs uses
iso-latin-1 for (terminal-coding-system) by default.  For UTF-8
locales, see below.

-- ~/.emacs -- 
;;(set-language-environment "Latin-1")
;;(setq default-input-method "latin-1-prefix")
(let (locale)
  (let ((vars '("LC_ALL" "LC_CTYPE" "LANG")))
    (while (and vars (not (setq locale (getenv (car vars)))))
      (setq vars (cdr vars))))
  (cond
   ((and (stringp locale)
	 (string-match "UTF-8\\>" locale))
    (set-terminal-coding-system 'utf-8))))
---- 

Anyway, Emacs 21.2 seems that UTF-8 features are not yet
completed.

-- 
Tatsuya Kinoshita