Re: Setting file-name/process coding system from LANG

[Stefan Monnier]

> Then a user can't recover that original setting when he once
> switch to, e.g., Latin-1.  Just switching back to Japanese
> can't setup coding systems for utf8.

M-x set-locale-environment RET

In my experience set-locale-environment has always been closer to what
I wanted to do than set-language-environment.
It also has the advantage of having a meaning outside of Emacs and of
conveniently separate the issue of language from the issue of coding-system.


        Stefan