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24.3; Emacs and Mac OS Dock bad launch behavior

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Message #40 received at 15402-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jan Djärv <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Constantine Vetoshev <vetoshev <at> gmail.com>, 15402-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#15402: 24.3; Emacs and Mac OS Dock bad launch behavior
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2013 19:11:01 +0200

Hello.

Finally got round to fixing this.  Closing.

	Jan D.

19 sep 2013 kl. 23:30 skrev Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>:

>>>> 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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