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Re: [AUCTeX-devel] Re: [Bug-AUCTeX] 11.83; encoding problems in RefTeX's
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David Kastrup |
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Re: [AUCTeX-devel] Re: [Bug-AUCTeX] 11.83; encoding problems in RefTeX's .rel files |
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Wed, 21 Mar 2007 10:34:17 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Frank Küster <address@hidden> writes:
> David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> So I don't see much that Emacs can do here, except possibly assuming
>> that its default locale matches getpwent. Given that people often use
>> latin1 for their (LaTeX) text processing, that seems audacious at
>> best.
>
> That's right. I guess the best thing would be to customize user-full-name.
>
>>> /etc/passwd is in utf-8,
>>
>> Says who?
>
> Me ;-).
Could you try logging into your system using several different
language environments, and using the graphical tools available to
create users with non-ASCII characters in their full names?
It would be interesting to see whether /etc/passwd is maintained
consistently, or whether its contents depend on the environment of the
respective system administrator.
--
David Kastrup