Re: Autogen in Emacs Shell

[Alexander Shukaev]

>
> > Right, so explicitly doing
> >
> > (setenv "LANG" "en_US.UTF-8")
> >
> > solves both problems at once. Interesting... Do you have any comments on
> that?
> > Maybe clarifications on why this problem occurs? For instance, why
> `LANG' is
> > properly set in ConEmu, while in Emacs it has value `ENU'?
>
> Because the Windows locale names are different from Posix locale
> names.
>
> > Where does this even come from?
>
> From w32.c:init_environment:
>
>   /* Get default locale info and use it for LANG.  */
>   if (GetLocaleInfo (LOCALE_USER_DEFAULT,
>                      LOCALE_SABBREVLANGNAME | LOCALE_USE_CP_ACP,
>                      locale_name, sizeof (locale_name)))
>     {
>       for (i = 0; i < N_ENV_VARS; i++)
>         {
>           if (strcmp (env_vars[i].name, "LANG") == 0)
>             {
>               env_vars[i].def_value = locale_name;
>               break;
>             }
>         }
>     }
>
> > Is it OK to do
> >
> > (setenv "LANG" "en_US.UTF-8")
>
> Not if you want the rest of locale-specific code in Emacs itself to
> work, no.
>
> Why does a native Windows program such as bsdtar expect a Posix-style
> locale spec?  It's a bug, IMO.  The MS-Windows implementation of
> 'setlocale' will not work with Posix locale specs.
>
> > or there is some other more generic way?
>
> There's no generic way.  Locale names and specifications are not
> portable between Posix and non-Posix systems.
>
>
I see.  Thanks, Eli.

Finally, do you have any comments on the issue
with "~/emacs.d/init_bash.sh" that I've described before.  Let me introduce
another test case briefly.  Put

# Hello, World!
# Hello, World!
# Hello, World!

into "~/emacs.d/init_bash.sh".

Then start 'bash' from Emacs.  Here is what I see:

2015.05.01 Friday 20:30:46
Haroogan@G75VW:~
$
2015.05.01 Friday 20:30:46
Haroogan@G75VW:~
$
2015.05.01 Friday 20:30:46
Haroogan@G75VW:~
$
2015.05.01 Friday 20:30:46
Haroogan@G75VW:~
$

Those 3 newlines were really typed into the shell.  How come?