Re: OSX terminal, system-wide Chinese input methods

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 21.11.2008 um 05:37 schrieb Eric Abrahamsen:

> (set-language-environment 'UTF-8)


It might be better not to use this statement but have in the shell  
from which you launch Carbon Emacs environment variables LANG and  
LC_CTYPE which are set to some Chinese UTF-8 value, zh_TW.UTF-8,  
zh_HK.UTF-8, zh_CN.UTF-8 – or can zh_CN.GB18030, zh_CN.GB2312,  
zh_CN.GBK be more appropriate?

Set-language-environment has many side-effects. If you're not content  
with the new setup, you can use statements like

        (prefer-coding-system 'utf-8-unix)
        (prefer-coding-system 'utf-8)
        (prefer-coding-system 'utf-8m)

etc. to help Emacs do the right thing.

--
Greetings

  Pete

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