From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nick Dokos Subject: Re: encoding problem Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2012 14:35:14 -0400 Message-ID: <13808.1338575714@alphaville> References: <87mx4q0z95.fsf@free.fr> <87aa0pk4xy.fsf@norang.ca> <87aa0nphu9.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> <87hauvhuum.fsf@norang.ca> <29580.1338568312@alphaville> <87d35ij3mt.fsf@norang.ca> Reply-To: nicholas.dokos@hp.com Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:48135) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SaWh0-000760-CU for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jun 2012 14:35:23 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SaWgy-0001Ra-Kp for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jun 2012 14:35:21 -0400 Received: from g4t0014.houston.hp.com ([15.201.24.17]:39695) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SaWgy-0001RR-Fh for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jun 2012 14:35:20 -0400 In-Reply-To: Message from Bernt Hansen of "Fri, 01 Jun 2012 14:20:10 EDT." <87d35ij3mt.fsf@norang.ca> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Bernt Hansen Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, Julien Cubizolles Bernt Hansen wrote: > Nick Dokos writes: > > > Isn't the setting of LANG used during initialization to set these things? > > I have LANG set to en_US.UTF-8 and new buffers are in utf-8-unix > > (except for mail composition buffers: they are in undecided-unix). > > I'm pretty sure I'm not mucking with coding systems anywhere in my emacs > > initialization otherwise. > > > > Nick > > > Maybe - I'm having this issue on Windows... > Ah - OK: forgive my parochialism. I guess the question is whether whatever version of emacs you are using can access the locale information on Windows and do the equivalent of what it does on POSIX-y systems. Nick