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23.0.91; Fails to read UTF-8 on Win2k

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: handa <at> m17n.org, 2497 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, uwe.siart <at> tum.de
Subject: bug#2497: 23.0.91; Fails to read UTF-8 on Win2k
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 21:25:58 +0200

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,  2497 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com,  uwe.siart <at> tum.de
> Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 10:25:45 -0500
> 
> So, again, the bug is in the ordering

Actually, the OP was complaining that, even with this ordering, Emacs
23 did TRT for him, and that a recent change broke that.  That bug is
fixed now, I believe, so you are talking about a more general problem.

> we have to figure out which code ends up putting latin-1 before utf-8 in
> the coding system priority.

Well, I think this is fairly easy: set-locale-environment does it.
Observe:

  (defun set-locale-environment (&optional locale-name frame)
    "Set up multi-lingual environment for using LOCALE-NAME.
  This sets the language environment, the coding system priority,
  the default input method and sometimes other things.
	...
	(let ((language-name
	       (locale-name-match locale locale-language-names))
	      (charset-language-name
	       (locale-name-match locale locale-charset-language-names))
	      (default-eol-type (coding-system-eol-type
				 default-buffer-file-coding-system))
	      (coding-system
	       (or (locale-name-match locale locale-preferred-coding-systems)
		   (when locale
		     (if (string-match "\\.\\([^@]+\\)" locale)
			 (locale-charset-to-coding-system
			  (match-string 1 locale)))))))
	...
	  (when (and (not frame)
		     coding-system
		     (not (coding-system-equal coding-system
					       locale-coding-system)))
    >>>>>	  (prefer-coding-system coding-system)
	    ;; Fixme: perhaps prefer-coding-system should set this too.
	    ;; But it's not the time to do such a fundamental change.
	    (setq default-sendmail-coding-system coding-system)
	    (setq locale-coding-system coding-system))))

Even the doc string says that the coding system priority is set
according to the locale's native encoding.

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