GNU bug report logs - #8517
Can't handle utf8 encoded filenames in locale 'de_DE.utf8'

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Message #21 received at 8517 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 8517 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, 611396-forwarded <at> bugs.debian.org,
 rlb <at> defaultvalue.org, gernotk <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: bug#8517: Can't handle utf8 encoded filenames in locale
 'de_DE.utf8'
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2019 11:02:51 +0300

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
> Cc: 8517 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,  611396-forwarded <at> bugs.debian.org,
>   gernotk <at> gmail.com,  rlb <at> defaultvalue.org
> 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.

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