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24.3; Emacs and Mac OS Dock bad launch behavior

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Message #35 received at 15402 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Jan Djärv <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>
Cc: 15402 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Constantine Vetoshev <vetoshev <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#15402: 24.3; Emacs and Mac OS Dock bad launch behavior
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 17:30:48 -0400

>>> This is NOT required when launching Emacs from the command line!
>> Typically, the difference between the two is that running Emacs from the
>> command line runs it with environment variables set by your shell's init
>> scripts, whereas running it from the GUI does not have those
>> env-vars set.
>> IOW please compare M-: process-environment RET in the two cases, it will
>> probably contain a clue.
> I already checked, LANG is needed to be set properly in the environment, and
> it isn't when laucnhng from dock.  M-x setenv doesn't help, as it really
> doesn't setenv anything (should be renamed IMHO).

IIRC, under Darwin, everything along the lines of locale-coding-system,
keyboard-codind-system, terminal-coding-system, etc... should always be
utf-8.  So we probably don't need to look at LANG to make that decision.


        Stefan

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