[Bug-AUCTeX] Re: preview-1.248; preview completely broken?

[R.P.I. Lewis]

David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:

>> I have
>>
>> $ locale
>> LANG=


> Wow.  Yes, that would probably be like it.
>
> LANG=en_US
>
> would be a good choice for typical systems, unless your C library does
> not support locales at all.  I found that calling "perl" without
> arguments is one way to figure out whether a specific locale setting
> is supported: perl tends to complain rather loudly if not.

hmm perl complains if i set LANG to en_US, but it doesn't care if LANG
is empty.  oh well.

>
>>> Can you write files without Emacs asking for a coding system?
>>
>> i've never been asked anything (and files save fine)
>
> Presumably if they are ASCII-only, no weird 8bit characters.

i suppose i've not had occaision to create a new file with non-ascii
on this system yet

> I have committed the following fix to preview.el which should help in
> your case.

yes that has fixed it, thanks for the help.