Re: Gnu Emacs under Japanese MS Windows

[Jason Rumney]

On 14 Nov, 12:18, "Ben Bullock" <benkasminbull...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Anyway, I deleted LANG from the menu, and then I commented out the lines in
> .emacs which set it to shift-jis. Then I tried starting up Emacs again, and
> found that it seems to open the directories correctly now. I'm very glad
> that it works, although I'm a bit concerned how LANG got set like that.

I think your guess of the GIMP or Inkscape installer is most likely
(Firefox less so). Another way to get an English interface in those
programs without setting LANG is to delete or rename the Japanese
resource file.