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| From: | Stefan Monnier |
| Subject: | bug#15260: cannot build in a directory with non-ascii characters |
| Date: | Mon, 28 Oct 2013 21:35:00 -0400 |
| User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
> emacs = EMACSLOADPATH="$(abs_lisp)" LC_ALL=C "$(EMACS)" $(EMACSOPT)
> ^^^^^^^^
> Does anyone know or remember why we set LC_ALL=C while running
> commands in lisp/ (and the same in leim/)?
IIRC the issue was to avoid things like misdetecting coding-systems
because of the user's locale setting, in the files we load/compile.
IOW, it was to work around bugs (e.g. missing coding: cookie) and is
likely unneeded nowadays.
Stefan
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