Re: Gnus doesn't load with Unicode chars in .gnus.el

[Reiner Steib <4.uce.03.r.s@nurfuerspam.de>]

On Thu, Feb 12 2004, Ted Zlatanov wrote:

> On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, 4.uce.03.r.s@nurfuerspam.de wrote:
>
>> Often people change too many of the *-coding-system-* stuff without
>> being aware of the consequences and run into problems later.
>> Usually it's enough to set the systems locale or use
>> `set-language-environment' in Emacs.
>
> I do this currently:
>
> (set-coding-priority '(coding-category-utf-8))
> (set-language-environment "UTF-8")

[ JFTR: This is new in 21.3 ]

> (setq locale-coding-system 'utf-8)
> (set-selection-coding-system 'utf-8)
> (prefer-coding-system 'utf-8)
>
> I use too many utf-8 unaware programs on some systems, so I prefer
> to leave the locale to default on those systems and have just Emacs
> (Gnus, mainly) be utf-8 enabled.  Is this sensible?

I don't know the details of the abovementioned settings, so I would
just rely on Emacs to do the right thing.  :-)

Something like »alias emacs='LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 emacs'« might do
this.

Bye, Reiner.
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