Re: environment variable don't get coding conversion

[Dave Love]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

> That is true, now, in the normal case.  The normal case is that Emacs
> inherits the environment variable.  When a subprocess of Emacs inherits it,
> Emacs should make sure never to have modified it accidentally.

Of course, if you modify the codeset-affecting locale variables, it's
effectively screwed anyhow if you don't recognize the change and
recode the environment.  That's actually not so unreasonable if you're
starting a shell session to test something, I think.