Re: Problem with (user-full-name) Character Encoding

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Nordlöw <per.nordlow@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:34:29 -0800 (PST)
> 
> What variables control how (user-full-name) encodes its characters?
> 
> When I do eval (user-full-name) in "my" Emacs i get
>   "Per Nordl\303\266w"
> 
> but when I do it in Vanilla Emacs it works correctly and outputs:
>   "Per Nordlöw"
> 
> What variables control these encodings?
> 
> From the shell and from within my Emacs, using (getenv), LANG has the
> correct value "sv_SE.UTF-8".
> 
> What variables have I missed?

Try comparing the output of "M-x mule-diag RET" in both session, maybe
that will give you a clue.