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authorGravatar David Aspinall <da@inf.ed.ac.uk>2004-04-14 21:05:21 +0000
committerGravatar David Aspinall <da@inf.ed.ac.uk>2004-04-14 21:05:21 +0000
commitd5b28f2a2e930c0694dd82c39b9aea3db82b84da (patch)
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parentd7a93cb1371f8a74b2fb7f70a5de6c4492657e0a (diff)
Mention coding system for x-symbol warning message.
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@@ -31,6 +31,11 @@ A. This may be because of UTF-8 issues e.g in Red Hat 8.0/9/glibc 2.2
be read the shell. This will affect all applications, though.
[ 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
+ assume `iso-8859-1'". This warning appears to be mainly harmless.
+ Notice that the variable `buffer-file-coding-system' may determine
+ the format that files are saved in.
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