Re: UTF-8 and M-x shell?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Daniel Pfeiffer <occitan@esperanto.org>
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2004 10:25:20 +0100
> 
> But now Gnu Emacs (2-3 weeks old CVS) M-x shell gets problems.  First off, the
> buffer still comes up in Latin-1.  That can apparently be fixed with
> (set-language-environment "utf-8"), but only interactively, not in .emacs.el! 
> But it doesn't help:
> 
> - M-! umlaut-emitting-command displays old (1-byte) umlauts as octal and utf-8
> correctly
> 
> - but with the same commands in the shell buffer, with mode-line u:, it still
> displays everything as one-byte.
> 
> What must I do for M-x shell to respect $LANG, like an xterm?

I suggest to post this to emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org, since you are
talking about the CVS version of Emacs.