Vineet, Well perhaps some progress, perhaps not.
> * Haines Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031212 14:02]: > > Logged and back in and went to save my test file. The test > > failed. That is, I'm still being prompted for the coding system, and > > utf-16-le is offered as the default. > >=20 > > The command $ locales tells me that locales is installed (status is > > ii).=20 > >=20 > > However, the $ locale command still only returns LANG=3DPOSTFIX for > > LANG. It still lacks a line such as LANG=3Den-US.utf-8. The coding > > system I selected with locales configuration is not reported. > > Try it after puttin something like this in your .bashrc: > > LANG=3Den_US.UTF-8 > export LANG Well, I put these lines into /etc/bash.bashrc. This did in fact put LANG into bash's environment, and when I ran $ locales, it does report LANG=en_US.UTF-8 rather than LANG=POSIX. However, that information is not being used by emacs when it tries to find the default coding system (when I try to save a file with accendted characters, I'm told there's no default language and utf-16-le is offered as the option by default). Since I managed to install locales, I noticed that now I have a /etc/locale.gen file, and when I look into it, I find that apparently the coding system is supposed to be written there when I run dpkg-reconfigure locales. For some reason nothing was written when I configured locales initially, but now when I run dpkg-reconfigure, I find added to it the line: en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8. I relogged in again and now have: $ locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL= Looks good, but then I tested to see if emacs would now see UTF-8 as the coding system in use. It did not ;-(. I've slowly gotten to the point where it seems that emacs should pick up the coding system, but it fails to do so. Do you happen to know which of these variable names is likely to be the one used by emacs? At this point, I may need to approach the problem from the emacs side, but my sense is that the problem is not there. Haines Brown -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]