Re: emacs-unicode: `Encoded-kbd' weirdness during batch-mode

[Miles Bader]

On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 10:24:33AM +0900, Miles Bader wrote:
>    Unsupported coding system in Encoded-kbd mode: utf-8

BTW, this same error occurs if I start emacs in a terminal with
`emacs -nw -q', and causes emacs to abort startup, and not visit any
files I gave on the command-line.

Even if it's hard to support utf-8 input (is it?), should this really
be an error, given that it's somewhat out of the user's control?

A possible side-effect of the error also seems to be that it doesn't
set the terminal-coding-system from LANG for output either.  If I
start emacs with LANG=ja_JP.utf8, files containing non-ascii
characters are displayed as question-marks, but I can make them
display correctly by using `C-x C-m t' -- but the trunk does this
automatically from LANG.

Thanks,

-miles
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