Re: switching between locales (esp. iso-8859-1 and iso-8859-15)

[Kevin Rodgers]

Tapani Tarvainen wrote:
> Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com> writes:
>>>I'd still like to know is there a simple way to effectively change
>>>emacs behaviour as if locale had been changed without restarting
>>>it?
>
>>Does `C-x RET l' work?
>
> No. (Or it does "work" in the sense that it sets the emacs language
> environment, but that does not change the way current buffer is
> displayed or keystrokes are interpreted.)

Well of course it won't affect the way the current buffer is displayed
-- the only way that I know of to do that is to re-visit the file with
the `C-x RET c ... C-x C-v RET' command posted earlier.  I figured `C-x
RET l' would do the right thing for input, but maybe `C-x RET k' is
better.

--
Kevin Rodgers