Subject: bug#8517: Can't handle utf8 encoded filenames in locale 'de_DE.utf8'

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2019 11:02:51 +0300

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked],  [email-masked],
>   [email-masked],  [email-masked]
> Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2019 02:16:34 +0200
> 
> The user had
> 
> (current-language-environment "German")
> 
> in ~/.emacs, and was surprised that this overrode the LANG settings.
> But like I tried to say, that's what that invocation does, so this works
> as designed.  (And the user should remove that setting.)

The user should either remove that setting or follow it by

  (prefer-coding-system 'WHATEVER)

if the default preferences are not to their liking.