> On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 05:25:47 -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > > > 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. > > It's been a long time... > > GNU Emacs should use LANG *and* LANGUAGE, LANG being a simple > preference set by localeconf (apt-get install localeconf) and LANGUAGE > being a preference list, due to the uncompleteness of several locales. > > localeconf will put your system preference where it belongs, > namely /etc/environment. /etc/bash.bashrc is good only for bash, so it is > not a good idea for X11 apps launched for icons and the such. > > Please install localeconf and report your /etc/environment, as well > as what you get with M-x getenv LANG under GNU Emacs.
Leandro, Thank you very much for your reply. My original problem turned out to result from a broken installation of locales, and once that was fixed, everything fell into place. Nevertheless, the information you kindly provide is useful to know. Emacs is currently using en_US.UTF-8, and it generally works fine. I do have a few files that emacs has trouble with, probably 16-bit, but they are exceptional, and I know how to handle utf-16 in emacs and convert those files to useful form. I've just not had the time to play with the one difficult file now troubling me. Haines Brown -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
