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Re: address@hidden: latin-1 language environment and bash.exe under w2k]
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: address@hidden: latin-1 language environment and bash.exe under w2k] |
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Mon, 12 Nov 2001 11:25:39 +0200 (IST) |
On Sun, 11 Nov 2001, Karl Eichwalder wrote:
> "Eli Zaretskii" <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > AFAICS, the only difference between "German" and "Latin-1" is the
> > default input method (see lisp/language/european.el).
>
> I don't know what process-coding-system is considered to manage, but
> usage of Latin-1 for »German« is different than for « French » (e.g.,
> different quotation rules). Not to mention sorting orders (LC_COLLATE)
> or program messages (LC_MESSAGES); Emacs used to downcase German error
> messages wrongly.
This is all true, but it describes what Emacs does _not_ do
currently. What Emacs doesn't do cannot possibly be a reason for some
bug, can it? ;-)
My reply was in the context of trying to figure out how come a call to
set-language-environment could have any effect on the shell not
finding programs in a shell buffer. What Emacs does not do cannot
possibly affect that.