Re: emacs 23.1 font problem

[Gerhard]

David Kastrup wrote:

> Gerhard <feldspat@gmx.net> writes:
> 
>> David Kastrup wrote:
>>
>>> Gerhard <feldspat@gmx.net> writes:
>>> 
>>>> .tex files. When I try to open such a file, I receive the
>>>> following message, and font-lock is turned off:
>>>>
>>>> File mode specification error: (error "Invalid face height"
>>>> 0.0)
>>>> File local-variables error: (error "Invalid face height" 0.0)
>>> 
>>> locale problems, likely.  Or GTK-KDE integration.
>>> 
>>> M-x report-emacs-bug RET
>>> 
>>> would give some more information.
>>
>> In GNU Emacs 23.1.90.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.18.3)
>>  of 2010-01-08 on localhost
>> Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version
>> 11.0.10605000 Important settings:
>>   value of $LC_ALL: nil
>>   value of $LC_COLLATE: de_DE.UTF-8
>>   value of $LC_CTYPE: de_DE.UTF-8
>>   value of $LC_MESSAGES: de_DE.UTF-8
>>   value of $LC_MONETARY: fr_FR.UTF-8
>>   value of $LC_NUMERIC: fr_FR.UTF-8
>>   value of $LC_TIME: de_DE.UTF-8
>>   value of $LANG: de_DE.UTF-8
>>   value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=none
>>   locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
>>   default enable-multibyte-characters: t
> 
> What happens when you start Emacs with
> 
> LC_NUMERIC=C emacs
> 
> ?
Everything seems to work fine now, great!

Am I right in supposing that this resets locales only for emacs, and that 
there should be no undesired side-effects elsewhere?