[Bug: 21.5-b27] font-lock-fontify-* / infinite loop

[Aidan Kehoe]

 Ar an naoiú lá de mí Eanair, scríobh Wulf C. Krueger: 

 > Usually, I'd call it a "feature" (MS-style feature ;) ) but in this case
 > it's worse because I now have an English/German mixture (i. e. "Neuer
 > Schirm" (en: "new frame") but "Close Frame") both inside the menus and
 > even among the menu titles ("Datei" (en: "File) but "View") which is
 > fairly disturbing.

If you don’t want to modify your LC_CTYPE in general (which is reasonable,
but then I’m not sure which applications respect LC_CTYPE for German case
rules--I can’t get Perl 5.8.8 to), add this to your ~/.xemacs/init.el :

(set-language-environment
 (create-variant-language-environment "English" 'utf-8))

 > And even though German is my native language I would never have guessed
 > that "Schirm" (colloquial for "monitor" and "umbrella" in German) is
 > supposed to refer to a frame. :)

 > Anyway, I'll proceed with removing the package for now but I'd really be
 > grateful if this could be corrected.

Unless your ~/.xemacs/init.el already handles what coding system file names
are in, you probably don’t want to remove the package. The change I made
that provoked the new behaviour on your machine added support for sniffing
what encoding file names were in, which should be beneficial for you. 

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