Language environment for emacs

[knxm]

Which is the best way of setting the language environment of emacs. I want to choose language environments in Makefile with "lb config".

[knxm]

We made a config/hooks/emacs.chroot for this issue.

[knxm]

Finally, we determined to configure in lang/ja script, because when we build chroot, always LANG=C, we can not use case statement.

[seijimtmt]

Can we reopen this issue?

I've noticed that some old settings in the egg age still remain. The following lines can be removed because we are using mozc:

(setq its-hira-comma "，")
(setq its-hira-period "．")
(eval-after-load "its"
  '(define-its-state-machine-append its-hira-map
     (its-defrule "dhi" "でぃ")
     (its-defrule "dhu" "でゅ")
     (its-defrule "thi" "てぃ")
     (its-defrule "thu" "てゅ")
     (its-defrule "whi" "うぃ")
     (its-defrule "whe" "うぇ")
     (its-defrule "who" "うぉ")))
(toggle-input-method nil)
(setq its-enable-fullwidth-alphabet nil)

Futher, we don't need

(set-language-environment 'utf-8)
(prefer-coding-system 'utf-8)

which are automatically set from the locale. ( http://masutaka.net/chalow/2009-07-09-1.html )

So, the settings we do need is only mozc related things (except for the comma and the period conversion rules). I'd like to propose to prepare a "language-independent" initialization file like:

;;
;; /etc/emacs/site-start.d/90lang.el
;;    mathlibre language settings (input methods etc.)
;;
(let ((lang (getenv "LANG")))
  (cond ((or (equal lang "ja_JP.UTF-8")
         (equal lang "ja_JP.EUC-JP"))
     (when (file-readable-p "/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/emacs-mozc/mozc.el")
       (require 'mozc)
       (setq default-input-method "japanese-mozc")))
    (t nil)))

With this init file, it's now easy to add default input methods for other languages. We can also include other language-specific settings here (yatex etc.).

[knxm]

Thank you very much, I added the new file: config/include.chroot/etc/emacs/site-start.d/90lang.el .