From 068929cd624e734b560332257f84782eebf63abd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eli Zaretskii Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2002 14:40:50 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] (International, Language Environments, Specify Coding): Make it clear that locale-coding-system is used for decoding keyboard input on X. --- man/mule.texi | 24 +++++++++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/man/mule.texi b/man/mule.texi index 4bc21f1752c..57e64c56831 100644 --- a/man/mule.texi +++ b/man/mule.texi @@ -75,7 +75,9 @@ your keyboard can produce non-ASCII characters, you can select an appropriate keyboard coding system (@pxref{Specify Coding}), and Emacs will accept those characters. Latin-1 characters can also be input by using the @kbd{C-x 8} prefix, see @ref{Single-Byte Character Support, -C-x 8}. +C-x 8}. On X Window systems, your locale should be set to an +appropriate value to make sure keyboard input is interpreted +correctly by Emacs, see @ref{Language Environments, locales}. @end itemize The rest of this chapter describes these issues in detail. @@ -297,8 +299,9 @@ against entries in the value of the variables @code{locale-charset-language-names} and @code{locale-language-names}, and selects the corresponding language environment if a match is found. (The former variable overrides the latter.) It also adjusts the display -table and terminal coding system, the locale coding system, and the -preferred coding system as needed for the locale. +table and terminal coding system, the locale coding system, the +preferred coding system as needed for the locale, and---last but not +least---the way Emacs decodes non-ASCII characters sent by your keyboard. If you modify the @env{LC_ALL}, @env{LC_CTYPE}, or @env{LANG} environment variables while running Emacs, you may want to invoke the @@ -1056,14 +1059,17 @@ name, or it may get an error. If such a problem happens, use @kbd{C-x C-w} to specify a new file name for that buffer. @vindex locale-coding-system +@cindex decoding non-ASCII keyboard input on X The variable @code{locale-coding-system} specifies a coding system to use when encoding and decoding system strings such as system error -messages and @code{format-time-string} formats and time stamps. You -should choose a coding system that is compatible with the underlying -system's text representation, which is normally specified by one of -the environment variables @env{LC_ALL}, @env{LC_CTYPE}, and -@env{LANG}. (The first one, in the order specified above, whose value -is nonempty is the one that determines the text representation.) +messages and @code{format-time-string} formats and time stamps. That +coding system is also used for decoding non-ASCII keyboard input on X +Window systems. You should choose a coding system that is compatible +with the underlying system's text representation, which is normally +specified by one of the environment variables @env{LC_ALL}, +@env{LC_CTYPE}, and @env{LANG}. (The first one, in the order +specified above, whose value is nonempty is the one that determines +the text representation.) @node Fontsets @section Fontsets -- 2.39.2