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@@ -10,8 +10,8 @@ Please also check the BUGS file.
Q. Emacs appears to hang when the prover process is started.
-A. Perhaps this because of UTF-8 in recent linuxes with glibc 2.2 or later
- (e.g in Red Hat 8.0, 9, Fedora Core 1,2, Suse 9.1, ...)
+A. This is caused by UTF-8 support in recent linuxes with glibc 2.2 or later
+ (e.g in Red Hat 8.0, 9, Fedora Core 1,2,3, Suse 9.1, ...)
Glibc 2.2 and later may be enabled with UTF8 encoded output in your
default locale. Unfortunately Proof General relies on 8-bit
@@ -32,7 +32,8 @@ A. Perhaps this because of UTF-8 in recent linuxes with glibc 2.2 or later
the string UTF in the current value of LC_CTYPE.
Alternatively you can set LC_CTYPE inside a file ~/.i18n, which will
- be read the shell. This will affect all applications, though.
+ 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