Variable: locale-coding-system

locale-coding-system is a variable defined in coding.c.

Value

nil

Documentation

Coding system to use with system messages.

Potentially also used for decoding keyboard input on X Windows, and is used for encoding standard output and error streams.

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Probably introduced at or before Emacs version 21.1.

Aliases

w32-system-coding-system

Source Code

// Defined in /usr/src/emacs/src/coding.c
  DEFVAR_LISP ("locale-coding-system", Vlocale_coding_system,
    doc: /* Coding system to use with system messages.
Potentially also used for decoding keyboard input on X Windows, and is
used for encoding standard output and error streams.  */);