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that locale-coding-system is used for decoding keyboard input on X.
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@ -75,7 +75,9 @@ your keyboard can produce non-ASCII characters, you can select an
appropriate keyboard coding system (@pxref{Specify Coding}), and Emacs
will accept those characters. Latin-1 characters can also be input by
using the @kbd{C-x 8} prefix, see @ref{Single-Byte Character Support,
C-x 8}.
C-x 8}. On X Window systems, your locale should be set to an
appropriate value to make sure keyboard input is interpreted
correctly by Emacs, see @ref{Language Environments, locales}.
@end itemize
The rest of this chapter describes these issues in detail.
@ -278,8 +280,9 @@ against entries in the value of the variables
@code{locale-charset-language-names} and @code{locale-language-names},
and selects the corresponding language environment if a match is found.
(The former variable overrides the latter.) It also adjusts the display
table and terminal coding system, the locale coding system, and the
preferred coding system as needed for the locale.
table and terminal coding system, the locale coding system, the
preferred coding system as needed for the locale, and---last but not
least---the way Emacs decodes non-ASCII characters sent by your keyboard.
If you modify the @env{LC_ALL}, @env{LC_CTYPE}, or @env{LANG}
environment variables while running Emacs, you may want to invoke the
@ -1037,14 +1040,17 @@ name, or it may get an error. If such a problem happens, use @kbd{C-x
C-w} to specify a new file name for that buffer.
@vindex locale-coding-system
@cindex decoding non-ASCII characters on X
The variable @code{locale-coding-system} specifies a coding system
to use when encoding and decoding system strings such as system error
messages and @code{format-time-string} formats and time stamps. You
should choose a coding system that is compatible with the underlying
system's text representation, which is normally specified by one of
the environment variables @env{LC_ALL}, @env{LC_CTYPE}, and
@env{LANG}. (The first one, in the order specified above, whose value
is nonempty is the one that determines the text representation.)
messages and @code{format-time-string} formats and time stamps. That
coding system is also used for decoding non-ASCII keyboard input on X
Window systems. You should choose a coding system that is compatible
with the underlying system's text representation, which is normally
specified by one of the environment variables @env{LC_ALL},
@env{LC_CTYPE}, and @env{LANG}. (The first one, in the order
specified above, whose value is nonempty is the one that determines
the text representation.)
@node Fontsets
@section Fontsets