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bug#8517: Can't handle utf8 encoded filenames in locale 'de_DE.utf8'
From: |
Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#8517: Can't handle utf8 encoded filenames in locale 'de_DE.utf8' |
Date: |
Fri, 23 Aug 2019 02:16:34 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> Not sure why this is even important. By default, Emacs takes the
> codeset part (i.e. the encoding it prefers) from the locale. the
> above is only important if someone sets the language environment by
> hand. Am I right?
You are.
The user had
(current-language-environment "German")
in ~/.emacs, and was surprised that this overrode the LANG settings.
But like I tried to say, that's what that invocation does, so this works
as designed. (And the user should remove that setting.)
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