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authorGravatar David Aspinall <da@inf.ed.ac.uk>2005-06-02 09:53:17 +0000
committerGravatar David Aspinall <da@inf.ed.ac.uk>2005-06-02 09:53:17 +0000
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@@ -28,13 +28,18 @@ A. This is caused by UTF-8 support in recent linuxes with glibc 2.2 or later
$ LC_CTYPE=en_GB xemacs &
- The supplied proofgeneral script makes this setting if it sees
- the string UTF in the current value of LC_CTYPE.
+ (where $ is the shell prompt; this example is for my locale which
+ by default is "en_GB.UTF-8": I see this by typing "locale" at
+ the prompt).
+
+ This is fixed in the development version of Proof General: the
+ supplied proofgeneral script makes an adjustment if it sees
+ the string UTF in the current value of LC_CTYPE and an adjustment
+ is made inside the Emacs environment.
Alternatively you can set LC_CTYPE inside a file ~/.i18n, which will
be read the shell. Put a line such as "LC_CTYPE=en_GB" into this file.
However, this action will affect all applications.
- [ suggestions for a better workaround inside Emacs would be welcome ]
NB: a related issue is warnings from x-symbol: "Emacs language
environment and system locale specify different encoding, I'll