Re: emacs 22 missing iso-accents-mode

[Sven Joachim]

On 2008-05-21 20:01 +0200, Steinar Bang wrote:

> I was going to say that "if the locale utils don't pick them up, they
> are useless", but it looks like you may be right.   The locale(1)
> utility does not pick them up:
>
> $ locale
> LANG=
> LC_CTYPE="POSIX"
> LC_NUMERIC="POSIX"
> LC_TIME="POSIX"
> LC_COLLATE=POSIX
> LC_MONETARY="POSIX"
> LC_MESSAGES="POSIX"
> LC_PAPER="POSIX"
> LC_NAME="POSIX"
> LC_ADDRESS="POSIX"
> LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX"
> LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX"
> LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX"
> LC_ALL=
>
> However, there is a setting called GDM_LANG:
>
> $ env | grep LANG
> GDM_LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>
> Maybe the Ubuntu locale setting is Gnome specific?  If so, it shouldn't
> affect GNU emacs...?

It seems this is a long outstanding bug in Ubuntu's GDM, see
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdm/+bug/160984.

Try to copy your locale settings from /etc/default/locale to
/etc/environment to work around this.

Sven