Re: Emacs and UTF-8 locale

[Dave Love]

>>>>> Tomohiro KUBOTA writes:

 > Thus, portable softwares should check environment variables when
 > nl_langinfo() is not available, though this method can result in
 > wrong encoding.

Emacs will be able to do that anyhow, even if nl_langinfo is
available.

 >> From users' viewpoint, to declare encoding more clearly, it is a
 >good idea to define LANG variable including codeset part.

Probably, in principle, but that doesn't work generally (outside
Emacs) e.g. try LC_CTYPE=en_GB.iso8859-15 on Debian testing.