[Bug 513428] [NEW] XEmacs does not default to use UTF-8 for UTF8 locales

[Jarl]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: xemacs21

my locale is da_DK.UTF-8, that is my LANG=da_DK.UTF-8

When I use XEmacs I would expect default coding system is utf-8, both
when opening text files, starting new text files, and when entering non-
ascii characters. However the default is ISO 8859-1 (aka. latin1)

Therefore I need to additionally have these lines in my .xemacs/init.el file
(require 'un-define)
(set-coding-priority-list '(utf-8))
(set-coding-category-system 'utf-8 'utf-8-unix)
(set-default-buffer-file-coding-system 'utf-8-unix)

I would expect that XEmacs system initialisation files was configured to
set up XEmacs according to the LANG env variable, that is the case in
OpenSuSE.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Jan 27 20:26:35 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx wl
Package: xemacs21-mule 21.4.22-2ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=da_DK.UTF-8
 SHELL=/usr/bin/tcsh
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-17.54-generic
SourcePackage: xemacs21
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-17-generic x86_64
XsessionErrors:
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:2771): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (firefox:2980): GLib-WARNING **: g_set_prgname() called multiple times

** Affects: xemacs21 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug

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