Re: "Outer world" encoding for non-Latin1 language environments

[Stefan Monnier]

> In this case setting the keyboard won't make any harm to this user, as
> then he or she can use some of the input methods provided by Emacs.
> There is no situation when it might be usefull if Emacs interprets my
> Cyrillic input as Latin1.

The default keyboard encoding is not latin-1 but ascii (at least until
Emacs-21.3), so I'm not sure what makes you think that Emacs interprets
your input as latin-1.  Maybe your locale settings are wrong or maybe
Emacs mistakenly associates your locale setting with latin-1 ?

What is the value of your locale envvars like LANG ?
Can you give us an example starting with `emacs -q --no-site-file' which
shows a case where Emacs mistakenly treats your input as latin-1 ?


        Stefan